CORONAVIRUS (No Test Kits)
Covid-19, better known as the Donald Trump Virus, got me like...
Intro ft. My Parents
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My idea of America is hanging on by the thread of my Social Studies textbook that I read when I was eleven. Toilet Paper and Tylenol are like 50 bucks on Amazon… Middle of a pandemic and we’re still bleeding the people dry, no surprises. South Korea had their first case the very same day as America, we’ve caught up to the mass hysteria but they’re already “flattening the curve,” as they say. And day by day, America is running out of supplies, reusing masks and gowns, seeing who lives or dies, just like in wartime…
Because we don’t have test kits! So we cannot test this! How we gonna test it if we don’t have test kits? I want to get tested! To see if I’m infected! But I cannot test it! Cuz we don’t have test kits!
Experts say that Coronavirus can last on surfaces between one and one million days and it can stay in your body between now and forever. And if you hold your breath for ten seconds and you don’t cough that means you don’t have ‘The Rona.’ But if you hold your breath for ten seconds and you do cough that means you do have ‘The Rona.’ And if you don’t copy and paste this text and send it to ten of your closest friends, then you and your whole family are absolutely going to get ‘The Rona.’ Also,
wash your hands don’t touch your face
wash your hands don’t touch your face
wash your hands don’t touch your face
wash your hands don’t touch your face
wash your hands don’t touch your face
wash your hands please don’t touch your face
My doctor told me I had to be unable to breathe to possibly see if I could maybe get tested. I asked why I had to be practically dying and they told me, “ma’am, I’m sorry, we are trying…”
But we don’t have test kits! So we cannot test this! How we gonna test it if we don’t have test kits? I want to get tested! To see if I’m infected! If we do not test this, we all get infected!
On March 14th the bars closed in Gay Paree, and the men came with their guns and told us to leave. The idea’s to keep people apart but the next day, ‘le lendemain’ les Parisiens were having picnics in the park. So now you need an attestation to go out and get supplies, and if you’re caught without, it’s a fine, and possibly jail time… The Italians are singing from their windows in solidarity, and the French are applauding from their windows for the working peoples’ bravery, and me, I just wanna rip this hangnail right off with my teeth! But this Covid-19 could be in any nook or crevice on my body, and I would never know-
Because I can’t get tested! Cuz we don’t have test kits! How we gonna test it if we don’t have test kits? I want to get tested! To see if I’m infected! But we cannot test this! Cuz we don’t have test kits!
On March 16th I snuck out of Paris and I met a kid on the plane and we chatted to quell our anxiety. He had on gloves and a face mask and I had a lot of hand sanitizer and we sat one seat apart and we were very very very very very very very careful. And then we got kind of relaxed, and he pulled out a snack, and said ‘you can have some if you’d like!’ and I really wanted to connect in that little way, I wanted to take the peace pipe, but I refrained! And eventually he said, “oh you don’t want any?” and I said,
“I really appreciate the offer and I would love to try it. But I just don’t want to run any risks of contracting this Donald Trump Virus.”
Sophia Lucia is an experimental musician, performer, and writer. She is based out of Chicago & Paris. She writes and produces her own one-woman variety show entitled, 'Freak Show Cabaret!’
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