Superheroes as Pin-up Models

I saw the drawings on Bored Panda and couldn't resist sharing it on my blog. 

American David Talaski-Brown (right), a Portland, Oregon-based artist worked on this quirky illustration series where he turned male superheroes into classic pinup models. 

My selection:

Just yesterday, in my post titled “More Americans Die From Covid-19”, I had drawn attention to the fact that the UK had missed a crucial target: 100,000 daily Covid-19 tests by the end of April. 

But its health and social care secretary Matt Hancock (right) had disputed this – instead, he claimed that in fact, the UK had provided more than 122,000 coronavirus tests on the last day of April, therefore, passing the government's target. 

Almost immediately, he faced derision with doubters saying the number had been artificially inflated. 

The 100,000 target was set by Hancock himself on April 02, when the UK was on 10,000 tests a day. 

John Newton (right), Director Health Improvement at Public Health England, explained the target was chosen "to motivate the programme and set the scale of our ambition". 

He added: "We knew from our calculations that we would need something like this level of testing to be ready for the next phase of the response to the pandemic". 

They can say whatever they want, but the fact remains that the final figure consisted of 40,000 tests sent out, including directly to people's homes, which may not yet have been taken. 

Of the 122,347 tests provided in the 24 hours up to Friday morning, the number of people tested was fewer – at just over 70,000 – as has been the case since the testing programme began. This is because some people need to be tested more than once to get a reliable result.

And just to give Hancock a reality check – on Wednesday, only some 52,429 tests were carried out, according to news reports. Miraculously, a day later, he was able to more than double that number!

Hancock must have been so obsessed with wanting to honor the promise he made – that no matter what, he had to produce the numbers. By hook or by crook.