You need this. So do I. Ladies and gentlemutants, this is Daniel Matarazzo performing his ode to coronavirus, 'Super Bad Transmittable Contagious Awful Virus!.' It's a parody of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, from the 1964 musical 'Mary Poppins.'

I love this man and I love his song so very much.

Tom Lehrer, reincarnated, and stuck at home during a pandemic.

LYRICS:

Now when a virus comes along that’s spreading like a plague and POTUS and his lackeys have been nothing if not vague Well then you’ve got to trust the CDC and listen well Unless you want to bid our free society farewell

There is a... Super bad transmittable contagious awful virus And if we don’t act quick and social distance it will mire us In a stretch of quarantine that lasts until July, a Super bad transmittable contagious awful virus

(And if ya gotta better cough in your arm And if ya gotta better cough in your arm)

Now back in 1918 Influenza had its run But half their docs were busy overseas with World War I Today we have mass media and scientists to say If you don’t want this virus well then stay six feet away!

Super damn important that we practice isolation Cause we’re asymptomatic while it’s in incubation We’ll overwhelm our hospitals if there’s not mitigation Super damn important that we practice isolation

(If we don’t do it then we’re all gonna die If we don’t do it then we’re all gonna die)

And so I hope at last you take the lesson here to heart, cause it’s already scary and we’re only at the start If you get bored just think of the immunocompromised Who can’t go much of anywhere unless it’s sterilized

Super bad transmittable contagious awful virus And if we don’t act quick and social distance it will mire us In a stretch of quarantine that lasts until July, a Super bad transmittable

A super bad transmittable

A super bad transmittable contagious awful virus!

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