Covid Sucks Niles Fast

Everyone has a body. Everyone has a home. Everyone has a world to live in.

But sometimes, that world to live in isn't safe. Sometimes things are dangerous.

Because in 2020, when Covid-19 came, Covid-19 changed things.

Even if Covid didn't get inside of you, It still hurt you.

And it still hurt the body you live in, the home you live in, and the world we live in together.

Because in 2020, Covid changed everything.

Your family: stuck in your home with nowhere to go, with nothing to see, and even if there was somewhere to go, something to see— would that place to go be new? Would that thing to see be beautiful?

Covid destroyed our body, our home, and our world to live in, just like those diseases that get inside our bodies.

But our immune system stops them. Our immune system creates white blood cells, T lymphocytes, B lymphocytes, Neutrophils, Monocytes— all with the purpose of attacking and destroying the bad things that get into our bodies.

And now that Covid has come, it will never really leave.

When Covid came, Covid came. When Covid came, Covid stayed.

Covid stayed like that one stuffy nose that won't go away, that one headache that just keeps bothering you, that one cold that your white blood cells, T, and B lymphocytes just can't get out of you.

Covid kept you sitting there, day and night, over and over and over thinking: When will it end?

Covid kept you sitting there, lying dormant in that eternal traffic jam that just won't end. But luckily, even while you sat in that traffic jam, deep deep down inside of you, way down inside your bones, inside the things that make up your bones, your body is creating new white blood cells, new neutrophils, new T and B lymphocytes, all with the purpose of protecting you; all with the purpose of saving you; All with the purpose of stopping Covid.

Niles Fast, Grade 7 Sanford Middle School, Minneapolis Teaching Artist: Frank Sentwali