Romeo & Juliet in 2021: Star-Cross’d Employees at Pfizer & Moderna Begin a Secret Romance

Two vaccines (both alike in immunity), in fair Corona, where we lay our scene…

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Act I Prologue

CHORUS

Two vaccines, both alike in immunity
(In times of Corona, where we lay our scene),
From recent outbreak in global community,
Where COVID germs make COVID hands unclean.
From forth the remedial jabs of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers share their life;
Who, despite anti-vaxxers’ piteous overthrows,
Do with their antibodies bury pandemic strife.

Act I, Scene I

[Day.]

JULIET

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

ROMEO

Hark! My faire Juliet. Fret not, for here I am…eth?

JULIET

Thou must knoweth that ‘wherefore’ means not ‘where,’ but ‘why.’ Your Lady Pfizer asketh herself: Why must her Love be of the Household Moderna?

ROMEO