Ken Shimura's slapstick humor, physical comedy and naïve persona made him a household name in Japan for nearly five decades. He has died at age 70 after contracting the coronavirus.
イギリスでコロナウイルスの流行を受けて食品店の棚が空っぽになっているという話題に関連した記事。ツイート本文ではなくリンク先のところに書いてあるのが、「For some Britons, coronavirus means apocalypse soon」(ある種のイギリス人にとって、コロナウイルスはすぐそこにあるアポカリプスを意味する)。
“I’m not going to be selling boiled heads on a market stall,” says the anonymous leader of the South East England Preppers, a survivalist group that has meticulously planned for the coming apocalypse. Historical analysis, he says, is crucial to this preparation. After discovering that peasants turned to cannibalism during the Russian famine in the 1920s, he was spurred on to avoid a similar situation. Since then he has brought fellow-travellers together through online groups and awaydays to share bushcraft techniques.