No it wasn’t! Look in the textbook!

the fantastic revelries […] that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile

We made a practice run with the automatic paint sprayer on a piece of scrap.

A few weeks ago, the U.K. had almost no social-isolation measures in place, and according to some reports, the government planned to let the virus run its course through the population, with the exception of the elderly, who were to be kept indoors. The idea was to let enough people get sick and recover from the mild version of the disease, to create herd immunity. Things changed swiftly after an epidemiological model from Imperial College London projected that without drastic interventions, more than half a million Britons would die from COVID-19.