David Winship

Coronavirus, by Dave Winship
This is a lovely silly set of chuckles reminding us we have not lost everything!
Starting with a curled-up pangolin, and with the familiar protein-spikex molecule on every page, it reminds us to stay together.
A Robin's song in winter
An anniversary poem for the first lockdown--losing whole days of the week. Losing my father on April 2nd 2020--not to Covid, but complications after a broken hip. He must have been so afraid, but a nurse held his hand at the end.
I have always been terrified of losing my parents because they were my safe space (illnesses including mental illnesses), and I have always been very different from my sister and her family.
I sing to myself when I can remember the words to anything, which I can't.
I've always been very verbal. I used to go to the church next door and sing hymns but I've lost my hymnbook
Save the world (and your shoes) from the sofa.
Zoom calls and not being able to pass a pen across the desk, which reminds me hilariously of sitcom /The Goes Wrong Show/'s first episode /The Pilot/ (not the pilot)
Superspreaders should wear protein spikes on their hats!
"I've been planning more running and walking--but I haven't persuaded my legs!"
"Clapping for carers" united us all for the NHS. I clapped for the support workers in the supported living home I'm in.
Captain Tom Moore--an inspiration to us all--knighted by the Queen.
Doggies getting tired of walkies in the rain. My moggy is tired of sudden noises, and he's always been a very relaxed cat.
Cartoons of the hated blob with protein spikes on every page. Before now, nobody except scientists and doctors knew what a Coronavirus looked like.
An "In the Bleak Mid-Lockdown" carol. "If Boris were a Wise Man he could grant their wish. But what can he give them? Give them fish!"
I so want to get back to singing.… (mais)

Instead of a fun book its a lecture

‘Coronaverse’ by David Winship

This book has short little moments and poetry about everyone’s favorite virus. Yes, that one that made everyone wish they had never seen 2020.

The problem with this book is that it’s coming out to a time when the virus is still in the daily headlines. It’s way too soon. People are sick of talking about it (at least I am anyway) so why would I want to read about it now?

Now onto the book. Instead of pointing out the crazy toilet paper buying or how people cover up in everything from plastic wrap to gas masks well sadly this book feels like it’s trying to lecture me on the facts of the virus. Case in point where it came from and about the new vaccines. If I wanted this I’d just turn on the daily MSM.

In the middle of this book, we talked about BLM. Why BLM is in the middle of a book about the beer bug I will never know but it’s there.

This leads to the biggest problem this book has in that it has a lot of false information in it. By now I’ve noticed that almost every book seems to bring up Donald Trump in their books no matter what. The problem is that both times he’s brought up both lies have already been disproven. Also, why is ‘storming the capital’ even brought up? And the lie that it was his supporters doing the storming gets pushed again. But I have noticed with most books if you repeat a lie so many times until you hope it sticks.

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