Shakespeare gets Covid vaccine: All's well that ends well 2 days ago
Margaret Keenan has made history by becoming the first person in the world to get a Covid-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial, but if there's one name you'll associate with this day, it may not be hers.
Enter, pursued by puns, William Shakespeare.
Not the writer, poet and playwright, but his 81-year-old namesake. This Mr Shakespeare was the second person to be given a jab - and, guess what, he also comes from Warwickshire.
"Much ado about nothing?" It doesn't matter - "all's well that ends well".
"Is this a needle which I see before me?" the present-day Shakespeare could have asked, but his reaction was a little bit less, well, dramatic: he said he was "pleased" to be given the jab, and staff at University Hospital in Coventry had been "wonderful". (Macbeth: "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? ")
So, if Ms Keenan was patient 1A, was Mr Shakespeare "Patient 2B or not 2B"? (Hamlet: "To be or not to be?")
Theirs were the first of 800,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine that will be dispensed in the coming weeks in the UK.
The vaccine is given as two injections, 21 days apart, with the second dose being a booster. Immunity begins to kick in after the first dose but reaches its full effect seven days after the second dose.
"Two doses, both alike in quantity," if we're allowed another pun - but here are some others on the day "the taming of the flu" began. (Romeo and Juliet: "Two households, both alike in dignity")
下面是机智的Twitter用户评论： Dan Walker @mrdanwalker This Winter’s Tale
john graham @spinnerjohn Love the fact that the 2nd person to have the vaccine was William Shakespeare from Warwickshire. How late am I with "Two Gentlemen of Corona?"(Two Gentlemen of Verona)
Callum May @callummay A plague on neither of your houses (Romeo and Juliet)
Oonagh @Okeating I'm surprised they let William Shakespeare have the vaccine. I thought he was Bard. (barred) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55233021
【 在 wh (wh) 的大作中提到: 】 : 前天看到BBC新闻，英国第二个新冠疫苗接种者居然叫莎士比亚(William Shakespeare) : ，不仅与莎翁同名，而且是Warwickshire同乡。老人今年81岁。新闻写得很好玩，充满 : 双关语，贴过来分享，括号里是我查的出处： : Shakespeare gets Covid vaccine: All's well that ends well : 2 days ago : Margaret Keenan has made history by becoming the first person in the world : to get a Covid-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial, but if there's one : name you'll associate with this day, it may not be hers. : Enter, pursued by puns, William Shakespeare. : Not the writer, poet and playwright, but his 81-year-old namesake. This Mr : ...................
前天看到BBC新闻，英国第二个新冠疫苗接种者居然叫莎士比亚(William Shakespeare)，不仅与莎翁同名，而且是Warwickshire同乡。老人今年81岁。新闻写得很好玩，充满双关语，贴过来分享，括号里是我查的出处：
Shakespeare gets Covid vaccine: All's well that ends well
2 days ago
Margaret Keenan has made history by becoming the first person in the world
to get a Covid-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial, but if there's one
name you'll associate with this day, it may not be hers.
Enter, pursued by puns, William Shakespeare.
Not the writer, poet and playwright, but his 81-year-old namesake. This Mr
Shakespeare was the second person to be given a jab - and, guess what, he
also comes from Warwickshire.
"Much ado about nothing?" It doesn't matter - "all's well that ends well".
"Is this a needle which I see before me?" the present-day Shakespeare could have asked, but his reaction was a little bit less, well, dramatic: he said he was "pleased" to be given the jab, and staff at University Hospital in
Coventry had been "wonderful".
(Macbeth: "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? ")
So, if Ms Keenan was patient 1A, was Mr Shakespeare "Patient 2B or not 2B"?
(Hamlet: "To be or not to be?")
Theirs were the first of 800,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine that
will be dispensed in the coming weeks in the UK.
The vaccine is given as two injections, 21 days apart, with the second dose being a booster. Immunity begins to kick in after the first dose but reaches its full effect seven days after the second dose.
"Two doses, both alike in quantity," if we're allowed another pun - but here are some others on the day "the taming of the flu" began.
(Romeo and Juliet: "Two households, both alike in dignity")
下面是机智的Twitter用户评论：
Dan Walker
@mrdanwalker
This Winter’s Tale
john graham
@spinnerjohn
Love the fact that the 2nd person to have the vaccine was William
Shakespeare from Warwickshire. How late am I with "Two Gentlemen of Corona?"(Two Gentlemen of Verona)
Callum May
@callummay
A plague on neither of your houses
(Romeo and Juliet)
Oonagh
@Okeating
I'm surprised they let William Shakespeare have the vaccine. I thought he
was Bard.
(barred)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55233021
赞，2vac or not 2vac~~~
【 在 wh (wh) 的大作中提到: 】
: 前天看到BBC新闻，英国第二个新冠疫苗接种者居然叫莎士比亚(William
Shakespeare)
: ，不仅与莎翁同名，而且是Warwickshire同乡。老人今年81岁。新闻写得很好玩，充满
: 双关语，贴过来分享，括号里是我查的出处：
: Shakespeare gets Covid vaccine: All's well that ends well
: 2 days ago
: Margaret Keenan has made history by becoming the first person in the world
: to get a Covid-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial, but if there's one : name you'll associate with this day, it may not be hers.
: Enter, pursued by puns, William Shakespeare.
: Not the writer, poet and playwright, but his 81-year-old namesake. This Mr
: ...................
哈哈，还有书面通知啊。接了没？谈谈感想……
【 在 drei (drei) 的大作中提到: 】
: 赞，2vac or not 2vac~~~
: Shakespeare)
很爽，哈哈
【 在 wh (wh) 的大作中提到: 】
: 哈哈，还有书面通知啊。接了没？谈谈感想……
靠，这是说打疫苗还是打别的……第二针也打了吧？
【 在 drei (drei) 的大作中提到: 】
: 很爽，哈哈
收费不？
【 在 drei (drei) 的大作中提到: 】
: 赞，2vac or not 2vac~~~
: Shakespeare)
是不是香港还没疫苗？我香港的朋友说影儿都没见一个。
【 在 CCOMddz (王爷府里的Hotzenplotz) 的大作中提到: 】
: 收费不？
【 在 drei (drei) 的大作中提到: 】
: 赞，2vac or not 2vac~~~
: Shakespeare)
这个不清楚，大陆这送那送的，可以分给他们些，当然香港人可能不稀罕。
【 在 wh (wh) 的大作中提到: 】
: 是不是香港还没疫苗？我香港的朋友说影儿都没见一个。