THERE'S A VIRUS IN THE AIR

On the last lesson before we released them for the Circuit Breaker 2020, I played a song on the guitar for my Sec 2 form class.

I composed the lyrics:

There's a virus in the air

Everyone must take care

Don't any how leave your home

Now isn't time for us to roam

On the train and on the bus

It is best to wear a mask

Clean you hands with sanitizer

If you are sick go and see doctor

Everything will go away

This too will be gone some day

Mean while let us keep our cool

And kids don't stop learning outside school

I got a student to video the whole thing. Looking at this almost six years later, I can see many of the class not taking the message of the song seriously. They were joking and sniggering, which is to be expected. These kids had grown up in a safe and stable system governed by a protective and paternalistic government. After I sang the song to them, my co-form and I gave some final instructions and we dismissed them into the Great Unknown.