Do They Know It’s Covid?

An old friend of mine issued me several quick-writing challenges during the first year of covid. This time it was to do a covid parody of the Band Aid classic, “Do They Know It’s Christmas”…

It's Christmas time
And here’s my plead to be afraid
At Christmas time
The health guidelines will not be obeyed

And with our fools aplenty
It will spread for miles, deployed
Covid’s harm around the world
At Christmas time

But, they don’t care
If they kill someone’s loved one
At Christmas time
E.R. beds will be overrun

Covid swirls outside your window
And it unfurls through breath from peers
So we only oughta be going
To essential things this year

And the Christmas norms you cling to
Have your clan confined in rooms
Well, you might swap Bethlehem
Instead for Zoom

As the ‘rona grows per capita this Christmas time
The greatest gift you’ll give this year is life
If you can just forego, abstain, let live, lie low
Dudes you know may be alive next Fall

Here’s a thought: Raise your mask up, everyone
Here’s to facts. Disbelief’s concerning, son
Do they know how science works at all?

Heed the word
Heed the word
Heed the word
Set guests low this Christmas time, my friend

Heed the word
You don’t need to gather in your den
Heed the word
Worse than flu by a factor of ten

Heed the word
Help us slow the virus climb again
Heed the word
Debts are owed to our front line brethren

Heed the word
Yes, I know you spend this time with kin, but
Heed the word
Let some folks see Christmas time again