Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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Song: Pandemic Flu.

Don't be afraid of the pandemic flu;
Just take a few precautions, if you please.
There's plenty of things anybody can do,
Like covering your nose before you sneeze.

Please wash your hands with water and soap
Before you touch your dishes or your food.
Keeping things clean will help us to cope,
And careless virus vectors are just rude.

SPOKEN: "Viruses and bacteria are two different things. Antibacterial soap won't reduce your likelihood of catching the flu any more than plain soap, and may cause bacterial resistance. Stick with nice, plain soap."

Water is good, you should drink it a lot;
Good hydration helps you to resist
Catching that virus that everyone's got.
So have another glass—I must insist!

Bodies need sleep if they want to stay strong,
So please admit that you should go to bed.
Down-time should be six to eight hours long
And sleep's more fun when you don't wake up dead.

        They say that giving's better than receiving,
        And if you agree, I think you should be leaving.
        If you don't give it to me, then I won't give it to you,
        And we'll all be okay, despite the pandemic flu.

You shouldn't freak out if you think that you're sick,
Just make some chicken soup and check the news.
If you need something else, they should tell you right quick,
And the ER just gives most of us the blues.

Remember to share when you go to the store;
Don't buy up all the bread because you're scared.
Take what you need and you can come back for more—
There's a difference between "panicked" and "prepared."

SPOKEN: "Many shortages are actually caused by people deciding to stockpile before there's actual reason to do so. Continue to buy needed supplies, and maybe splurge on a case of bottled water, but don't denude the Costco because the sky is falling. It probably isn't."

It isn't as bad as the news makes it seem;
They're paid to shock and titillate and scare.
Do your own research, don't stand there and scream,
You only need to take a little care.

So in conclusion, the flu's not that bad,
Although it tends to frighten folks a lot.
Just make sure you don't make your immune system sad,
And when you wash your hands, you keep that water hot.

        They say that giving's better than receiving,
        And if you agree, I think you should be leaving.
        If you don't give it to me, then I won't give it to you,
        And we'll all be okay, despite the pandemic flu.
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Nice teaching song.
Thank you!
I <3 you. Thought you should know :-D
Yay!

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Just print this out and politely leave it on his desk when he's not looking.
Once again, you are the Schoolhouse Rock for Epidemiology!
It's a hard job, but somebody's got to do it.
Schoolhouse Rock ain't got nothin' on Seanan.

AngelVixen :-)
For one thing, they generally had a lower body count...
Related but not identical: I loved the epidemiology song you did at your concert at Duckon. Do you have words and chords available?
"The Black Death" is posted in my online songbook, along with the associated chords. It currently comes up on the first page; this may change after the next lyric update.

"The Black Death" is also on my latest album, Red Roses and Dead Things, with Vixy and Maya Bohnhoff as my chirpy backing chorus.

wyld_dandelyon

June 17 2009, 06:04:30 UTC 8 years ago Edited:  June 17 2009, 06:05:50 UTC

Thanks very much for the link! Though I didn't see chords there, I'm glad to have the words. I also forwarded the link to a friend who I know will love the words.

Now all I need is a job, so I can afford things like your latest album! (This is, of course, not your problem. But sometime in the future, things will change, and I won't have to pinch pennies so much.)

Thanks again.

seanan_mcguire

8 years ago

Cool song!

Not at all related:

The National Geographic article on global warming, and the growth of Greenland's wolf spider.

The Register makes it sound worse than it is. (I went through three re-phrasings of that link before it didn't have a pun.)
Oh yes, El Reg's organic tanks *g*. One of their exciting articles (short on fact and high on sensationalism, but then so is most of the tabloid press and El Reg at least had done some calculations on a beermat)...

(I do actually like The Register, in much the same way as I like tabloids called things like The Enquirer, they are entertaining and escapist. Well, I'd want to escape from some of the things they say anyway...)
I am a fan of any press which grants me out-sized arachnid buddies.
SQUEE GIANT SPIDERS MAKE WORLD BETTER!
Love the lyrics, especially the part about not using antibacterial soap. A pet peeve of mine is all the antibacterial stuff people use everyday.

I also enjoyed your music at Duckon and I liked the Plague panel.

It's pointless, and it's bad for you, in the long run. People, not too bright, and don't get me started on the malaria.

Thank you for coming! I had a blast.
...wondering just what I've gotten into and why I don't mind...

...except I dated the daughter of a professor of entomology. Insects featured themselves prominently in both our dates...and in her freezer. Apparently you go for smaller bugs than she did, and I'm sure you wouldn't put yours in your own freezer...maybe. Alas, it couldn't work out, we were too weird for each other.

Oh, and you wrote the Fantastically Wrong Remix of Close Your Eyes ... that may explain why "Strange Pussycat Minds" struck you so. (You may wish to give Tom Smith a better URL than http://www.crossovers.net/underhill/ to put in his http://www.tomsmithonline.com/freestuff/index.html page. Unless it's not supposed to be a blank page?)
I will totally whack Tom with a stick to update his pointer. Thank you! Also, YAY ENTOMOLOGY! I am a huge fan of the insect kingdom.
I'm sharing this and The Black Death with my local nutritional epi professor. It'll break her a little, but she needs the laugh right now.
Well, good.
*singsongs* Awesome!
Glee.