(Lee Brown’s article appeared in the New York Post, 12/9; via the Drudge Report.)
It’s one for the books.
The first man to get the new coronavirus vaccine in the UK is named William Shakespeare — inspiring a veritable flurry of Bard-worthy puns.
The 81-year-old gained fame when he got his historic shot early Tuesday just after the first one went to a woman, Margaret Keenan, who turns 91 next week, on what the Brits have dubbed “V-Day.”
The modern-day Shakespeare got his injection at University Hospital Coventry — just 20 miles from his famous namesake’s birthplace of Stratford-Upon-Avon.
Shakespeare’s instantly recognizable name quickly sparked a rush of puns on the Bard’s best-known works — including the suggestion that the vaccine marked “The Taming of the Flu.“
Some were just grateful that the modern-day Shakespeare’s vaccine moment was not a comedy of errors — and suggested that his calm expression proved that vaccine fears are much ado about nothing.
Others, meanwhile, hoped it was a sign that we are finally coming to the end of our winter of discontent.illiam Shakespeare
