With the sports world to a screeching halt (along with the rest of the world) due to the coronavirus pandemic, athletes, coaches, and other sports professionals have found themselves totally out of their normal routine.

Sports commentators are included in that lot. It’s a little hard to commentate on a sport when there are no sports happening.

But that hasn’t stopped rugby commentator Nick Heath from doing his job in a creative, unpaid, but highly entertaining way anyway. Heath has started posting videos to social media of his color commentary on everyday life—much to the delight of everyone.

His #LifeCommentary posts include a video of two dogs—whom he refers to as “Vanilla” and “Chocolate”—racing around a park.

“The Interminable Wait” highlights people running the “supermarket gauntlet challenge” and waiting for the trolley as “the warm-up event for the international airport boarding gate heats taking place all over the world.”

Clearly, some of the people he’s filmed are not practicing proper social distancing measures, but don’t let their fueling of humanity’s demise stop you from enjoying Heath’s commentating.

Who knew that a handful of moms pushing their kids in a stroller could be so thrilling?

Heath just has a way of making the most mundane everyday actions sound exciting and entertaining, such as this “Find a Bargain Steeplechase.”

Even just watching people crossing the street becomes an exciting event. Who’s going to get across first?

People are loving Heath’s color commentary on life as they sit in their homes deprived of live sports commentary, as evidenced by his Twitter following growing by more than 50,000 in just a couple of days.

“It was just going and having a bit of fun and keeping my followers on social media entertained,” Heath, 41, told USA TODAY Sports. “But it obviously has blown up a bit since.”

Thank goodness for people like Nick Heath, who have the ability to make the most of a sincerely crappy situation and use their unique talents to keep people’s spirits up in creative ways. We need these people now more than ever.

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They say a crisis brings out the best and the worst in people. It also reveals the best and the worst in our leaders.

A city commission meeting in Lake Worth Beach, Florida has gone viral after Commissioner Omari Hardy took his fellow city officials to task for their seeming indifference to their constituents during the coronavirus crisis.

Hardy confronted Mayor Pam Triolo and City Manager Michael Bornstein, who he said refused to call an emergency meeting last week, per Hardy’s repeated requests, to discuss issues coming about from the coronavirus crisis. And he let his frustrations show.

“You’re calling me disrespectful because I’ve interrupted people, but this gentleman has turned off people’s lights in the middle of a global health pandemic,” Hardy said, referring to Bornstein.

When Triolo tried to call a recess, Hardy wasn’t having it. “A banana republic is what you’re turning this place into with your so-called leadership,” Hardy said.

“We cut people’s utilities this week and made them pay—with what could have been their last check—to turn their lights off in a global health pandemic! But you don’t care about that. You didn’t want to meet.”

Triolo walked out, saying “Out of order. You’re done.”

Coronavirus Florida: Lake Worth Beach city commission meeting turns ugly

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Hardy is being hailed a hero by people who have watched the video and see him as a staunch supporter of the citizenry he serves. He wrote a post on Facebook about how overwhelmed he was by people’s responses to the video.

“It was not about me. It was about the people in our city who are struggling, whose futures are uncertain, whose finances are unstable, who may be wondering if they will be able to work and earn a paycheck during this pandemic, and who came home on Tuesday or Wednesday to find the lights off, or the water off, at a time when water and lights couldn’t be more important. It was about them. It is still about them.”

“I was heated, yes. I was loud, yes,” he wrote. “But I was trying to get across an important point: that elected officials work for the PEOPLE. The PEOPLE put us on that dais. The PEOPLE put us in those chairs. The PEOPLE put those titles before our names. Everything we do is for the PEOPLE, and when the PEOPLE need us, it’s our job to step up for them. I was frustrated with three of my colleagues because they had forgotten who we work for.”

Thank you, Commissioner Hardy, for showing us what a true public servant looks like.

It really is the Golden Age of television.

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“It is the ghastly reality of what we deal with and where some of us have ended up already,” the New York City nurse said.

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The Zoom birthday chat is about to get lit.

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Trump, who days earlier talked about reopening the country amid the coronavirus pandemic, did not elaborate on how a potential quarantine on more than 30 million people would be enforced.

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Featuring texts, DMs, and dating app fails.

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This week, researchers in New York City started collecting blood from COVID-19 survivors. The hope is that their immunity can be shared with others.

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