Masque of the Red Death vs The Masks of the Covid Plague

Mr. Poe, in his famous short story, wrote that there are some things of which NO JEST CAN BE MADE.

I asked Steve Allen about this, and he said, "Of course you can joke about anything." The question was whether to show the joke to anyone else!

Is Covid-19 hilarious? There have been some wan song parodies on YouTube, and Colbert, Maher and a few others have gotten off some good lines about coping. Here's a rarity...social media actually HELPING. Culled from various Internet posts, here's a TOP TEN look at The Masks of the Covid Plague. It's hard not to smile at some of the Walmart shoppers and others improvising their store protection: