Omg!!! Omg!!l! Shakespeare dies after covid jab!!!

[Tanuki]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/28/william-shakespeare-death-mistake-argentinian-tv


"Newsreader confuses Bill Shakespeare, 81, ‘the first man to get the coronavirus vaccine’ with ‘one of the most important writers in the English language’

In what can only be described as a comedy of errors, an Argentinian TV news channel delivered a stunning, if slightly flawed, scoop on Thursday night when it reported that William Shakespeare, “one of the most important writers in the English language” had died five months after receiving the Covid vaccine.

The gaffe of, well, Shakespearean proportions happened after Noelia Novillo, a newsreader on Canal 26, mixed up the Bard with William “Bill” Shakespeare, an 81-year-old Warwickshire man who became the second person in the world to get the Pfizer vaccine.

William Shakespeare died in 1616, while his namesake – an inpatient in the frailty ward at University hospital, Coventry, at the time of his first vaccination – died this week from a stroke unrelated to the jab."...(more)

[Withywindle]

1. Good night, sweet prince. n/t

[NNadir]

2. By my troth, I care not. A man can die but once. We owe God a death. I'll ne'er bear a base mind...

...An ’t be my destiny, so; an ’t be not, so.

-Henry IV, Part II, Act 3, scene 2.

[NJCher]

4. hah!

How perfect.

Enjoyed that.

Signed:

English teacher

[ShazzieB]

5. I love it, too!

I'm not an English teacher, but I do have a degree in English and appreciate a good Shakespeare quote!

[Chainfire]

3. Now we will never find out whodunit.

The really curious thing is that 81 year old people are subject to go belly-up at any time. My Father died at age 57. We had not long finished supper when he croaked, and he had drank a big glass of sweet tea with his meal. I guess the tea killed him. (Mama's cooking was not that bad)

[FuzzyRabbit]

6. How long before the anti-vaxers claim the vaxine killed him?

[torius]

7. What does Frederick Douglass say

about this? Maybe they can interview him?

[Tanuki]

8. Out of curiosity, I looked up the Argentinian reporter in the Shakespeare fiasco,

Noelia Novillo. Something tells me she wasn't hired for her journalism credentials! She may have a future on Fox news, though. 🤣


https://www.miciudadenlinea.com.ar/nota/20140201-noelia-novillo-en-la-radio-y-la-tv