One date is thought of as being more sinister than others: the supposed dangers of Friday the 13th are well known. There is ample evidence to show that this is nothing but a fanciful belief; a superstition at best. Friday the 13th is no more or less sinister than another date, but that hasn’t prevented multiple horror films being made around the subject. People tend to stay indoors, refrain from travel or from making major decisions or investments on the day. They also make lots of jokes about #Fridaythe13th:
And realising it is Friday the 13th.
2020 has been a scary year. We saw #WWIII trending and it was just the fourth day of the New Year.
You can make what you want of that.
This is the day when terrible things are supposed to happen.
I’ll pass, thank you.
Thanks to COVID-19 many events and gatherings are cancelled.
Jason is the masked character from the Friday the 13th movies. He doesn’t seem to have much to do now and doesn’t seem as scary either.
People were warning each other of ill-luck for no reason other than the date on the calendar.
Pyrophoric reagents are “substances that ignite instantly upon exposure to oxygen”. I looked it up.
It’s not too clear whether the self-isolation as to do with the date or with the coronavirus pandemic.
The black cat – another symbol of the sinister – or not.
What with a pandemic and other issues, it’s been quite a week.
Normal occurrences seem eerie to the more suggestible ones among us. Things they read about or watched in a movie seem more likely to occur.
Friday the 13th is far less likely to cause harm than the pandemic currently sweeping the world.
There has been too much to cope with already this year – and it’s only the middle of March!
Even as the tweeple made jokes about #Fridaythe13th superstitions, they reminded each other stay safe from the far more real dangers of the coronavirus pandemic.
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