April Fools’
April Fools’ Day or April Fool’s Day (sometimes called All Fools’ Day) is an annual custom on April 1 consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting “April fools” at the recipient. Mass media can be involved in these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following day. The day is not a public holiday in any country except Odessa in Ukraine, where the first of April is an official city holiday. The custom of setting aside a day for playing harmless pranks upon one’s neighbor has been relatively common in the world historically. (Wikipedia)
The biggest April Fool’s prank ever is being played on us all, and by a tiny virus, so small that you need a powerful microscope to see it. It’s really almost like a joke, the entire world grinding to a halt out of fear of catching a dangerous disease with a little higher percentage of the possibility of death or extreme illness then normal flu, (not to minimize the grave danger one little bit). When I say the world is grinding to a halt, I don’t mean the parts of the U.S. that are predominately Republican, they still think it is all a hoax. But eventually the odds will catch up with them and they will also start dying and be forced to adhere to stricter quarantine rules. I suppose it is Darwinism in action, survival of the smartest, much better to overreact then to not act at all. I do not wish anyone ill, but being forced out into the wider world yesterday to pick up a much needed prescription, (at a drive up window), I noticed, that while traffic and people at stores was noticeably a little lesser, there were still an awful lot of people out and about.
We have gone from it being called a hoax, a non-threat to, we will be doing a great job holding deaths in the U.S. to 200,000. Good God! what kind of people say things like that? You have failed to protect a large number of the population and now a lot of them are going to die. So declare victory and get back to bragging about the ratings. This is all a monstrous April Fool’s joke and I keep waiting for the traditional shout out declaring it was all in fun. But I am seeing hardly anyone out there on the streets of New York and most other large cities, and in my little corner of the world, hopefully we will eventually catch on to the danger.
(I will keep washing my hands and staying home, far away from crowds of people. Good luck all.) (Photo of New York courtesy REUTERS/Mike Segar)
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