Are you fond of pranks and jokes? Well, then we have great news to declare a holiday then. Postpone your schedule for pranks or any funny moments for the April Fool's Day on the 1st of April 2020 because you could be the prey of legal issues this year.
As the world is suffering from novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) right now, any pranks or fooling sessions made with concerns to the pandemic will be considered unethical. While April's Fool is the day to pull off the deadliest and craziest pranks on your relatives and friends, this year, Coronavirus has affected millions of schedules.
Coronavirus, the deadliest disease that has been swirling all around the world for a few months, is beyond all the jokes and pranks as it hurts world health and many other developmental aspects as well.
Do not joke on Coronavirus (©: GlamourBiz)
The steps of avoiding jokes about Coronavirus have been made in several countries, including Japan, India, and many others. The local bodies, along with the administrative organs of the countries, are all cautious about the possible disinformation regarding the COVID-19, which might be in person or through social media platforms.
To be noticed, Google has also canceled its April Fool's Day plan due to the outbreak of Coronavirus, a leaked email suggests. As Google has been one of the prominent sources on which people rely upon to get the updates of everything, including Coronavirus, fooling people with disinformation would be against the law.
Google's head of marketing Lorraine Twohill released a statement on the concerns by stating;
"Our highest goal right now is to be helpful to people, so let’s save the jokes for next April, which will undoubtedly be a whole lot brighter than this one. We’ve already stopped any centralized April Fools’s efforts but realize there may be smaller projects within teams that we don’t know about. Please suss out those efforts and make sure your teams pause on any jokes they may have planned — internally or externally.”
Nonetheless, people around the world are suggested to be cautious of any such actions, including pranks, memes, and jokes about novel Coronavirus on April Fool's Day.
We request all beings to be responsible for each other during the global pandemic. We can beat it together. And let's avoid jokes and pranks.
Details About April Fool's Day History
April Fool's Day is celebrated worldwide on the 1st of April each year. Pranking and joking have been an integral part of this day for several centuries and all over the world. People play hoaxes or practical jokes on each other and often shouts the word 'April Fools' together during this day.
The beginning of this culture dates back to 1582, as per some historians. Many believe that people with a slow understanding of the start of the new year on the 1st of January started to celebrate it during the last week of March. So, the 1st of April became the butt of jokes and hoaxes and were eventually named 'April Fools.'
April Fool's Day, the day of pranking and joking (©: vecteezy.com)
The history of April Fool's Day has interesting records. Back in 1957, the BBC reported that the Swiss farmers were shown the footage of people harvesting noodles from trees (Spaghetti crops). Similarly, in 1992, the National Public Radio had a talk-show with former President Richard Nixon, who stated that he was in the run for the Presidential Campaign again, which was a prank on April Fool's Day.
Nevertheless, its importance has been passed from generation to generation. And, there is no way of being April Fool's Day, an endangered culture.
But keep this on the mind, this year don't pull any April Fools Prank about Coronavirus.