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On The Light Side—Skit, Rhyme, &
Song
Humorous TV Skit
Given all the interest and attention around the
COVID-19 pandemic, it is perhaps not surprising that many persons with
only the slightest credentials have felt the need to share their views
about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and what to do about it. With so many
people interested and asking, it has been difficult for some to resist
the opportunity to be “an expert”.
It seems the world has a much larger supply of
epidemiologists than we could have ever guessed. But this is not a new
phenomenon in epidemiology since the boundaries of the field have
never been bright lines.
In fact, the phenomenon is frequent enough that the
term “armchair epidemiologist” was coined to describe it. Presumably,
this is the opposite of a true epidemiologist, namely a shoe-leather
epidemiologist.
In any case, an Australian comedian Mark Humphries
has succeeded in making good fun of armchair epidemiologists by
playing the role of one in a television skit available on YouTube.
He claims he graduated from the University of Wikipedia
and claims he succeeded in learning to spell epidemiology and in
publishing his first peer-reviewed text message. Listen and enjoy at
this link:
https://bit.ly/3eJTKqE
Four Word Rhyme From Ohio State University Epidemiologist
Bill
Miller an
epidemiologist at Ohio State University College of Public Health has
written a simple four word rhyme to help people know what to do to
lower their transmission risk of COVID-19. Click on this YouTube link
to hear the one minute delightful rhyme.
https://bit.ly/32E959y
A Song To Stop The
Spread
Also,
not to be outdone, Michael Rayo, one of Miller’s colleagues at
the University (see above) wrote a song to get the message across in
yet another way. He told the Ohio State News
“I
read Bill Miller’s tweet about his rhyme and I felt compelled to write
the song, because there is still a lot of confusion in our state and
in the country about what we need to do to stay safe in the
pandemic…We all want to get back a semblance of normal, and these four
words (and a mask!) can really help.”
Click
here to listen to the song.
https://bit.ly/32CZekv
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