The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic caused many workers deemed “non-essential” to stay at home. This has nothing to do with nuns, but there are jokes.
“It would be wrong for the Pope to lay off female clergy because they are nun essential” was posted on Twitter by Danny on March 21, 2020. “I hear the monastery is laying off workers. All nun essential staff are gone” was posted on Reddit—Dadjokes on April 3, 2020.
“How do Indian restaurants stay open without their naan essential staff?” is another “non-essential” pun.
Wikipedia: 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The outbreak was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019, and was recognised as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020.
Twitter
oomalife
@SJNYouth
Follow @onegroovynun on her blog Nun Essential
8:54 AM · Feb 24, 2014·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Danny
@Mardigroan
It would be wrong for the Pope to lay off female clergy because they are nun essential.
11:27 PM · Mar 21, 2020·Twitter Web App
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/thomasbrakeline April 3, 2020
I hear the monastery is laying off workers…
All nun essential staff are gone.
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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