Saturday, October 29, 2022

A Room of My Own: Omicron Strains and Halloween Skeletons Tanka

Three Hundred and Fiftieth Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary

immune-evasive
Omicron strains are coming ...
skeletons
hang from an oak tree
in Halloween dusk

FYI: Yahoo News, October 12: WHO issues new warning over winter flu surge and COVID wave.

And CNBC, Oct. 28: Omicron subvariants resistant to key antibody treatments are increasing every week in the U.S.

The subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 now represent 27% of infections in the U.S., a significant jump from the week prior when they made up about 16% of new cases, according to CDC data published Friday.


AddedThree Hundred and Fifty-First Entry

cold and flu season
with covid19 in the mix ...
layers of dark clouds

FYI: The Washington Post, Oct. 28: So far, this flu season is more severe than it has been in 13 years 

And Democracy Now, Oct.27: Children’s Hospitals See Surge in RSV as Experts Warn of Winter "Tripledemic" of Respiratory Illness

Public health experts in the United States are warning of a possible "tripledemic" of respiratory illness this winter: an increase in COVID cases, an early flu season and a surge in cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). 


Added: This Brave New World, LXI
written on the Day of Halloween and in response to Amanda Gorman's tweet, "One Education under Desks"

Attack of Fright

this unspoken weight 
of a plantation ghost story 
clomp! clomp! clomp! ...

gunshots outside 
under the teacher's desk
two skeletons

FYI: The following is the full text:

Schools scared to death.
The truth is, one education under desks,
Stooped low from bullets;
That plunge when we ask
Where our children
Shall live
& how
& if 

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