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Bringing out new symptoms without, from what I can tell, not much verification, is not helping the public get through this pandemic...

Covid Symptoms

Covid Symptoms
By Franklin Price
05/19/2020

Looks like from the latest news
Covid symptoms not the same
The old ones have lost interest
So put new ones in the game

At first it took your breath away
And gave you quite a fever
Showed up in the old folks
The over sixties were receivers

Those with pre-conditions
Were the most prone of the lot
So we shut down the whole country
So we could further stir the pot

Decided that the symptoms
In the young, asymptomatic
Making them the carriers
So quarantined them in the attic

Closed down the non-essentials
Sent the lower classes home
Put millions on the food lines
From Miami up to Nome

Establishment kept searching
Found some children had a rash
Attributed it to covid
Added fuel to the crash

Now it makes you poop your pants
Makes purple colors on your toes
Some of these newest symptoms
Gives further length to someone's nose

I'm pretty sure that Covid's real
I'm still sequestered in my home
When they find more symptoms
I'll make additions to this poem
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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