Kids' song: "Let's do nucleic acid"
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The subtitles explain what's going on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkHaQBHhz88
Refrain:
zuò hésuān
做核酸
"do / make nucleic acid"
Using the cultural weight of traditional Chinese poetry to rally people around regular nucleic acid testing and other mandates.
"Li Bai and I are doing nucleic acids"
"Lu You and I are doing nucleic acids"
"Du Mu and I are doing nucleic acids"
Selected readings
- "Of chives and bandits" (6/3/22)
- "Can't work because of the Ukraine crisis" (2/25/22)
Joshua K. said,
October 31, 2022 @ 1:03 pm
Can someone explain this in greater detail? I'm baffled.
mg said,
October 31, 2022 @ 1:45 pm
What do they mean by "doing nucleic acids"?
Victor Mair said,
October 31, 2022 @ 2:04 pm
That's how they refer to the frequent COVID testing in China.
microtherion said,
November 2, 2022 @ 6:23 am
Those lyrics would seem to work better if you substituted "nucleic" with "lysergic"…
Philip Taylor said,
November 2, 2022 @ 12:42 pm
I cannot help but feel that many more readers would have understood a reference to lysergic acid [1] than understood the reference to nucleic acids. Like Joshua, I was completely bemused by the whole thing until Victor kindly explained it …
[1] although I have personally always know it as lysergic acid diethylamide rather than just lysergic acid.