FILE - In this March, 25, 2020, file photo, a sign sits in front of the Huber Heights Fire Division in Huber Heights, Ohio. It may be a little awkward, but humor is helping people around the planet cope with the fear and anxiety the coronavirus pandemic has unleashed. (Marshall Gorby/Dayton Daily News via AP)
March 26, 2020
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March 26, 2020 10:14 a.m.
If you don't laugh, you cry: Coping with virus through humor
BOSTON (AP) — Neil Diamond posts a fireside rendition of "Sweet Caroline" with its familiar lyrics tweaked to say, "Hands ... washing hands." A news anchor asks when social distancing will end because "my husband keeps trying to get into the house." And a sign outside a neighborhood church reads: “Had not planned on giving up quite this much for Lent.”