Social media delivers comic relief
One of the many social media postings.
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Social media has been a lifeline
to shut-ins and TV-weary
New Yorkers providing comic
relief with unimaginable frequency
to offset uninformative,
daily press conferences, breaking
news updates, and a flood
of curative suggestions from
concerned contacts on how to
overcome the COVID19 virus.
Providing diversion from a
plethora of podcasts explaining
how to sanitize, wash hands
(while twice singing the happy
birthday song) socially distancing
and covering the nose and
mouth more than a few have
conquered the ability to amuse.
No sooner than Mayor Bill
de Blasio issue a directive to
non-essential small businesses
to shutter two months ago
— WhatsApp subscribers were
inundated with comedic spins
on the process.
“Nail salon closed
Beauty parlors closed
Lash salons closed
It’s about to get real ugly out
there.”
Although brutality honest,
the sobering reality resonated
with women whose lifestyle was
threatened by the inability to
refill, reform and redecorate
themselves on a regular basis.
From that single visual
expression of conditions under
quarantined quarters, it seemed
a constant and continuous slew
of ridiculously humorous commentaries
poked fun of the
statewide forced confinement.
One featured a spin on the
hoarding phenom and the leader
of the nation — “Trump will
be forever known as the president
that was so full of sh#t the
country ran out of toilet paper.”
Let’s be honest, that opinion
might have riled some or made
others chuckle. Truth be told
regardless of political loyalty to
either Democratic or Republican
parties, there is a measure
of irony in that statement.
Another that gave pause for
the cause featured an image
of a kneeling, little boy at his
bedside prayerfully saying — “If
Trump is gone before I wake…
I pray to God the news ain’t
fake.”
Irreverence dominated with
children and adults having a say
on the state of emergency.
At every juncture Spanish
language posts diversified messaging.
One, interpreted north and
south of the border joked about
a presidential promise to keep
the coronavirus in the continental
United States — “Mexico
is now asking Trump to hurry
up with the wall.”
From Germany, a geographical
query — “What borders on
stupidity?”
— Mexico and Canada
In addition to comedy, preventive
measures found a platform.
Jamaicans offered an early
cure for the ferocious virus —
“The Jamaican Holy Trinity.”
Using a photo of a bottle of
J. Wray & Nephew’s over-proof
white rum, a container of honey
and a slither of lime, the image
represented a solution a great
many often apply to every situation.
Nationals from the Caribbean
island also capitalized on
the opportunity to opine on
the immigration aspect which
attributed to the first cases of
COVID19 when visitors from
the United Kingdom and the
United States tested positive.
Keep smiling, it wont hurt.
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