MThe world is reacting to the very scary COVID-19 with silliness.

Specifically, the governments of Vietnam, China and Mexico are among those attempting to take worried citizens' minds off the endless news updates through music, as are a number of independent and parody artists who've greeted the scary virus with silly songs.

In China, the nation where the virus originated, an all-star group of movie and music icons -- including Jackie Chan, Wang Leehom, Xiao Zhan and others -- have banded together for the soaring ballad "Believe Love Will Triumph."

The "We Are the World"-style anthem from Chinese state media includes the lyrics “For you, I fight with my life even in the face of a rainfall of bullets/ Through the door of life and death, I promise not to leave/ The hardest thing is to let it go/ I will stay calm for you."

By now you've probably seen the dancing viruses in the Vietnamese Health Department's "Jealous Coronavirus" cartoon, which mixes humor and good information about how to stop the march of the disease that is spread through droplets in the air produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.

While "Weird Al" Yankovic has stated that he won't dip his toe into the parody pool on this very serious topic, that hasn't stopped joke-loving physician Dr. Zubin Damania (aka ZDoggMD) from, of course, flipping The Knack's "My Sharona" into "My Corona." (See video)

"Oh, my little Wuhan one/ Viral one/ Comin' to congest my lungs/ Ay Corona!" he sings over the song's bouncy rhythm amid a screen full of close-ups of the virus and stock footage of China.

Comments:

Cuphead

The number of views of this video is bigger than the number of confirmed corona virus cases. It has gone viral, I guess.

Aaron Watson

been singing the line "MYYY CORONAAA" since the 'outbreak' started. Glad we share a mind.

Erika Emody

First song ever to include the phrase "zoonotic transmission" - WINNING!

Alan Maguire

I'm surprised that weird Al didn't think of this

Jim Cregan

I'm laughing my butt off from Italy. A bit of humor to ease being locked in this house with my wife all week

Pieter Ooms

And I just got called into HR because I was singing this at work????

Sharona Edwards

The joys of being named after the original song having people sing it to you constantly but now this???? I gaurntee this will be sung to me

OMI

My mums been singing “my corona” ever since corona has been a thing, and she was like “why hasn’t anyone made a parody of it yet??” 

She can die happy now that she knows it has been done.

Theresa Robinson

Haha... I actually came here searching for "My Corona" put to The Knack's "My Sharona".  I knew someone had to have made it by now!  Well done you guys!

Risa Doobie

Guaranteed to go viral. Ok that was lame

Eric

that moment when you realize the original song doesn't actually say "my corona"