Trevor Noah Lifting Spirits with Weekly Good News
By Mehr Sohal Comedian and television host, Trevor Noah, has started a ‘Daily Social Distancing Show’ on YouTube to keep all of us stuck at home smiling and informed. One specific segment of this new show that I find absolutely amazing is a weekly video on ‘This Week’s Good News’...very fitting with the ‘The Joyful Peach’.
Link on the weekly good news dosage for the week of 24th May, 2020–
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7wf1pQmzY8
Some of the good news he covered in his snappy 20 minute video are:
1. A Detroit priest spotted spraying holy water from a toy water gun; innovative way of reinforcing social distancing.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/17/priest-holy-water-squirt-gun-detroit
2. Safe ‘one-on-one’ concerts in Germany; the most famous example being a flute recital in the Stuttgart airport
For more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/arts/music/stuttgart-airport-coronavirus-concert.html
3. Bicycles are the new ‘toilet paper’ in USA, with an increasing shortage of this form of transportation– good form of exercise for those in lockdown (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/apr/22/bicycles-are-the-new-toilet-paper-bike-sales-boom-as-coronavirus-lockdown-residents-crave-exercise)
4. A 100-year-old British veteran (Capt. Tom Moore) awarded knighthood– raised 40 million dollars for Britain National Health Service by walking the length of his garden 100 times!
