Wash ya hands!

Wash ya hands!

Wash your hands til you’ve got no skin,

Kill the fucker from deep within.

Don’t unwittingly pick your nose

And don’t use your hands - use your elbow!

It can live off metal for seventy-two hours -

It’s up to us to keep clean and showered.

It could live on surfaces for up to three days

Transmit so quickly and so far away.

This bug can live on towels and clothes

And most other material – who really knows?

But if you launder them after one wear -

You’ll be looking after your own healthcare!

If it’s just a runny nose and phlegm

There is no need for panic and mayhem;

It’s probably just a common cold

At least that’s the rule of thumb we’re told.

It’s no use drinking warm water - its fiction

(And people have written about this prediction)

Don’t really think that wearing a mask

Would do any good and help the task;

We need another to cover our eyes

As the disease has spread and gone awry.

Check your temperature regularly,

Isolate if it becomes necessary! 

We can try and avoid catching this disease

That was sent to us from the Chinese.

A sneeze can spread about twenty feet

Airborne for ages in any heat

We shouldn’t laugh or mustn’t scoff

As temperatures change it might die off.

It’s easily caught can be ingested -

A lot of people have been infected

And if you want to stay unprotected,

Ignore these words and stay neglected.

Just wash ya hands, keep them clean

After every event – wherever you’ve been!

If you come down with a dry cough

Stay indoors to fend it off.

Who’d thought from that distance to China

That this virus would come and find ya?

On the Coronavirus

Linda Lawrence 12^th March 2020