Jim Koepke
12-08-2020, 5:30 PM
The first shot went to a 91 year old woman.
The second shot went to someone with a name familiar to all:
An 81-year-old man became the second person to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.K. on Tuesday, but he gained worldwide attention over his name: William Shakespeare.
It would be interesting to hear some of the tails about his life with the events that came about due to his name.
jtk
Lee DeRaud
12-12-2020, 3:40 PM
Most common comment on meeting him: "I thought you'd be older." :)
Bill Dufour
12-12-2020, 11:46 PM
William Shakesphere the third was the president of Shakesphere fishing reels.
Brian Deakin
12-13-2020, 6:19 AM
I live in the United kingdom and wondered
Margaret Keenan is the 91 year old first Uk person to receive the Covid vaccine and is patient one
Does this make William Shakesphere patient Two b, or not to b, that is the question:
Speech: “To be, or not to be, that is the question”
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-shakespeare)
(from Hamlet, spoken by Hamlet)
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
Brian Deakin
12-13-2020, 6:45 AM
Please view
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEs8rK5Cqt8&t=9s&ab_channel=BBC
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