Globally, Covid-19’s caseload has surpassed 84 million.
The United States marked the New Year by passing the extraordinary milestone of 20 million cases – even as the country flounders in its efforts to quell the virus.
And Peru has joined the elite club when it registered one million cases – the eighteenth country to do so.
This pandemic is a bummer – but we’re now in 2021 and all we have is now. We shouldn’t allow the virus to stop us from living.
Not even to Covid-19!
Collective nouns can be funny, even weird.
I bet you didn’t know a bed of clams, a huddle of walruses and a flange of baboons. Or a mess of iguanas, a rhumba of rattlesnakes and a glaring of cats. Or a bike of bees, a shiver of sharks and a crash of rhinoceroses.
But my favorite is the one found in this cartoon strip's last panel:
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