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On The Light Side
Multiple
Epidemiologists Enter New Haiku Contest To Share Insights From The
COVID-19 Pandemic
Read a Sample of
Entries
A new Haiku contest
designed to bring forth some of insights and observations about the
impact of the COVID pandemic on epidemiology and epidemiologists has
attracted scores of epidemiology entrants and an even larger number of
individual haikus with some readers submitting multiple entries.
Our contest seeks to
capture the insights which epidemiologists have garnered both positive
and the negative as a result of the unprecedented attention on
epidemiology during the pandemic. This is a chance for readers to
share their wisdom from lessons learned in the pandemic.
Cash Prizes
The winner for the
best entry will receive a $500 cash prize, and second and third place
winners will receive $300 and $200 respectively. All entries become
the exclusive property of the newsletter. The deadline for submission
is April 30, 2022. The winners will be announced in the May 2022
issue.
There is no limit to
the number of entries allowed. In the event that two haikus are very
similar, the earliest one submitted will receive priority
consideration. All decisions made by our panel of judges will be
final. Submit your entries to
editor@epimonitor.net
Sample Haikus
To get your creative
juices flowing, we present a small randomly selected sample of haikus
submitted to date. Challenge yourself to be even more insightful and
creative!
“Who needs PHDs?”
They cried, tweeting expertise
From their warm armchairs.
Months of talks later
Skeptic dad’s vaccinated
A long, slow exhale.
SARS CO-V 2 war
Science versus politics
Populations shrink
Armchair opinions
Battle methodology
Obscure truth and fact
We used to be asked
Does that have to do with skin
Harder questions now
Exponential growth
Everyone is so surprised
Except you, R naught
We knew long before…
Yet the public did not trust
Lives saved and lives lost.
Third call of the day
No answer, left voice mail, sigh
Lost case in the void
Can we please just
make
Epidemiology
Boring again, please?
And now they listen to
Epidemiologists
To then ignore them
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