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April Deadline Nears To Enter New Haiku Contest

Read Sample Entries Below

Our latest haiku contest to bring forth some of the insights and observations about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on epidemiology and/or on epidemiologists has received multiple entries. As intended with haikus, many of the poems say a lot with few words. Many are wise or humorous or witty.

Readers can enjoy below a sample of the entries received to date. The deadline for entering the contest is April 30. Winners of the cash prizes of $500, $300, and $200 will be announced in the May issue.

As described in previous issues, our goal is to capture both positive and negative insights of epidemiologists given the unprecedented attention on epidemiology during the pandemic. What have we learned? What do we feel? What do we think?

The author of the “best haiku” 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. There is no limit to the number of entries allowed. In the event that two haikus are identical, the earliest one submitted will receive priority consideration. All decisions made by our panel of judges will be final. Submit your entries now to editor@epimonitor.net.

Below is a small sample of entries received so far. Challenge yourself to be even wiser, funnier, or wittier!

Oh, pandemic times
now everyone an epi
Where is your degree?

Oh, when will it end?
You are an epi – tell me!
Now a household name.

our life upended...
on the epi monitor
so much depended

The virus revealed
Epi is not skin research!
Degree affirmed

Here comes BA.2:
Novel COVID variant.
New number, who dis? 

Tell me what this is
Black, white and read all over
Misinformation 

While we can predict
We cannot convince and so
We predict the worst

“It depends” on far
Far more than what we all wished
It depended on

A small number times
a very large number is
Still a large number

The best webinar
All my dishes are clean now
Epi tomorrow.

Who you gonna call?
Epidemiology
Ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost!

Prior to Covid
No-one knew our profession
Now, we’re all Covid.

All class examples
are just COVID-related.
What was used before?

Recommend a jab
Tell them it will keep them well
Receive your pink slip

Have you ever tried
Learning ID epi and
Yelling on Twitter?

Pandemic, my bane,
If only you were safer,  
I would have more papers.

What to name my cats?
Moderna and Pfizer, or
Johnson and Johnson?

How to be patient
And positive when you're a
Positive patient?

Vax efficacy 
Infection, sickness, or death?
Try explain outcome

In disguise ‘til now,
Epidemiologists
Are really rock stars

water drop or airborne spread?
debates around the campfire
words flare then burn out

Epi on the news.
No glory in prevention.
No-one listening.

Quell Snow, Koch and Hill
Faux experts and science swell
Causation skews nil

One stat to rule all,
Mandates lock down or parole.
Begone naughty R.  

Please put on a mask
A mask is a simple thing
Why is it so hard?

Tell us what to do
I recommend a vaccine
No, I have my rights

Impressive response
Most were saved, some succumbed to
Alternative facts

 


 


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