When it comes to COVID hysteria, Edgar Stammers Primary Academy in Walsall, England, has to set some kind of special record.
That takes talent. But leave it to the can-do spirit of the Britishers to find some way to make all things worse.
So, as you know, we’ve all found ways to lower the bar when it comes to how we’re supposed to protect ourselves from the novel coronavirus.
I’m not even talking about mask mandates anymore.
A town in Iowa could pass a mandate in which you could be put in jail if you don’t wear a mask out in the middle of an empty cornfield at midnight and I wouldn’t even bat an eye. You never know who could be out there, after all. And those scarecrows could catch COVID-19, or maybe the corn could catch it. Whatever. This is old hat for me.
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In fact, I’m not even shocked if you have to wear your mask to protect your old hat. For all know, your Yankees cap could end up with COVID-19 these days. Don’t wear a cloth mask around your baseball hat and you simply don’t know what could transpire. Whatever.
However, the folks in charge of a school in Walsall — a suburb of Birmingham — have managed to somehow sink to a new low by deciding that what we need to do to protect people is to stop them from eating mashed potatoes with their forks. And knives.
Oh, and everything but their hands because that’ll be what stops the virus from spreading.
“The school has also stopped issuing pupils with knives, forks and even plates over fears of spreading the virus,” Metro, a U.S.-based outlet, reported Tuesday.
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“Hot and cold lunches are dropped off to each class in ‘grab bags’ and children are told to wash their hands before and after eating. However parents were unhappy to discover youngsters were expected to eat ‘a small amount of mash served in a Yorkshire pudding’ without cutlery.”
Now, in case you’re wondering, Yorkshire pudding is one of the reasons we declared independence from our British overlords in the first place. (Or, if it wasn’t, it should have been.) It’s a type of pastry made out of popover batter which often takes forms like this:
http://www.westernjournal.com/kids-forced-eat-mashed-potatoes-hands-covid-hysteria-gets-utensils-banned-school/
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