A Michael Broad Blog
Digging around the Internet, as I do, I bumped into some acts of kindness which don’t necessarily surprise me but which greatly impress me. It is a time during which people are pulling together. There is a comaraderie which is not present in normal times. It’s a bit like the war and I suppose …
This is all over Twitter and some people believed it. I use the past tense because I would doubt if anyone believes it now. Was it ever believable? Apparently yes. Even Lord Sugar in the UK asked if it was a joke. He shared the fake news on social media that 500 lions had …
This photograph shows a veterinarian and assistant taking a throat swab (oropharyngeal swab) at a clinic in Cairo, Egypt from a domestic cat because it is a requirement for travel. The photograph is by Maya Alleruzzo and circulated by the agency AP. Testing, in fact, requires more than one swab. It requires swabs from …
This is a really gentle and tender picture of an elderly man with his cat. His daughter posted it on Twitter with the sad news that he caught the coronavirus at his nursing home on Wednesday and died five days later. He was 90-years-of age. My father tested positive for CV-19 on Wednesday. (Which …
NEWS/VIEWS – CALIFORNIA, USA: The hazards of the new way of doing business have been exposed in this little story from Vallejo, California. Zoom is a business which allows a multi-party, remote online conference to take place. It is like Skype but with many people and it gets over the coronavirus lockdown social distancing …
In a disturbing development, two domestic cats have tested positive for Covid-19 in New York state. These are the first confirmed coronavirus cases in companion animals in the US reports the Daily Mail online. Officials said that the cats lived in two different parts of the state. This follows the report earlier of tigers …
