Before spectators at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics were banned entirely, authorities announced that they would not be allowed to cheer.

In May 2020, Nottingham police raided history's first socially-distanced rave. Satisfied the rules were being obeyed, they left the ravers alone—all 40 of them.

After Donald Trump scheduled a rally in a state (Iowa) with a COVID positivity rate of 22 percent, activists marked the spot with a sarcastic billboard…

When America pulled diplomats from Wuhan in January 2020, the Chinese were outraged. To appease them, America sent 18 tons of free PPE. Later, when America had shortages, China sent America PPE—of low-quality, with outrageous markups.

Upon learning that the 2nd Brit to get a COVID vaccine was an 81-year-old named William Shakespeare, Jimmy Kimmel joked, "Was his blood type B or not to B?"

"I'm not buying a f*cking mask," Army veteran Richard Rose posted on Facebook in June 2020. "I've made it this far by not buying into that damn hype." Rose died of COVID-19 on July 4th—Independence Day.

From a hospital bed Herman Cain tweeted about a Trump rally: "Masks will not be mandatory. PEOPLE ARE FED UP!" Days later Cain died, of COVID-19, caught at a Trump rally.

In 2020, Britain went 68 days without using coal for power—for the first time since before the Industrial Revolution.

In 2020, at least 12 people got COVID-19 at a birthday party for a cat.

Madonna said covid-19 could be "the great equalizer" while sitting in a milky bath in a mansion in Lisbon.