Watching videos of those Chicago penguins waddling around is good for your mental health.
Newsfeeds, news broadcasts and newspapers have had round-the-clock coronavirus coverage for the past few weeks, and with good reason. There were more than 237,000 COVID-19 cases and 9,800 deaths worldwide, including confirmed cases in all 50 U.S. states, as of Thursday afternoon.
Read more:What is social distancing? This practice is key to slowing the coronavirus, public health experts say Hence why hashtags like #panicshopping trended on Twitter TWTR, -4.24% as people stockpiled toilet paper, paper towels and hand sanitizer once the fear of the spreading coronavirus really began taking root in American a couple of weeks ago. Among the memes being passed around were plenty of jokes about the scarcity of toilet paper — or the few foods being left behind on supermarket shelves even as stores like Trader Joe’s, Amazon-owned Whole Foods AMZN, -2.83%, Costco COST, -2.
iframe.twitter-tweet { width: 100% !important; } But now no one is missing out on anything, really, if everything is canceled or closed, and everyone is staying home to help flatten the curve and slow the spread of the coronavirus. Suddenly, group Google Hangouts GOOG, -4.39% and Facetiming on an Apple AAPL, -4.14% iPhone or iPad, or sharing memes and gifs over text or on Facebook, Instagram FB, -4.01% and Twitter, has to stand in for getting together in person.
Other amusing celebrity responses to the current crisis include Oscar winner Dame Judi Dench telling viewers to “just keep laughing” while wearing a ridiculous dog hat with flapping ears in a clip viewed 4.7 million times and counting. iframe.twitter-tweet { width: 100% !important; } iframe.twitter-tweet { width: 100% !important; } Viewers went wild over the clips. “The content we need,” wrote one. “Thank you!”
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