Most-Googled in 2021 🔎
This Week in Review ☕️ : Honeycomb Toffee and Waffles | All your questions about Omicron answered | Time Magazine recognizes the influential figures of 2021 | The World's Most Congested City revealed
Quick Bites:
Tech 📲 : Google reveals its top searches of 2021.
What were the memorable events people looked for? What were the defining moments we will remember?
In a year that tested many, the world searched "How to Heal" more than ever.
Key Highlights from Google's "Year in Search" of 2021:
💡Oprah's CBS special with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was the most searched interview in Google Trends history GLOBALLY!
No sh*t, an American spilled British tea.. again☕️
Oprah just woke up one day and thought "You know what, I'm bored of this pandemic. Lemme take down the Queen."
Let's be honest guys💡: America has a Queen and her name is Oprah Winfrey. We don't make the rules 🤷🏻♀️
💡More people googled "How to start a business" than "How to get a job" as the world sought new entrepreneurship opportunities
💡Netflix smash hits "Squid Game" and "Bridgerton" were the most-searched TV shows
💡In the UK, the most-searched terms were "Euros" and "Premier League" (The year it nearly came home!)
💡"Covid vaccine" and "Matt Hancock" were the two most-searched news events
💡In many European countries, Christian Eriksen's collapse at Euro 2020, Dogecoin, Afghanistan and the vaccine rollout all topped the list of searches
💡"Suez canal" became a breakout search worldwide
💡Other top searches included "Is Facebook down" (Oh, the HORROR of no social media!)
💡"How to Make Iced Coffee, Honeycomb Toffee and Waffles" made the top of the list also- basically all essential recipes to get us through Delta and now Omicron! FML🙈
Pandemic 🦠 : The Omicron variant is here. Just in time for Christmas. How predictable
"We're back to square one."
Vaccines working then?! 🙈
Experts answer 4 big questions about Omicron, New York Times.
Q1. Does Omicron spread faster than earlier variants?
Yes, in all likelihood. This seems to be about both contagiousness among people without immunity *and* immunity invasion.
Q2. Is Omicron more severe than earlier variants?
Probably not. Too early to say.
Q3. So, are vaccinated people protected or not?
Protected from Covid infection- or from severe illness?
If the former, probably not. If the latter, probably yes.
Q4. Do Covid-19 tests-including both PCR and rapid testing still work?
Yes, based on the signs so far.
"Bottom line: For now, vaccinated people can continue to behave as they were- but many should feel urgency about boosters. Older people [.] should continue to be careful."
-NY Times
Our Thoughts💡: BREAKING: Omicron's sister variant has been discovered and it could be harder to track.
WTF IS THIS? A FAMILY GATHERING?!
Omicron & his sis coming to crush your Christmas plans 👇🏻
Culture 🌎 : Elon Musk is announced TIME'S 2021 Person of the Year.
The magazine profiles a person who "for better or for worse...has done the most to influence the events of the year."
Hmm.. we keep wondering why Elon but noone from TIME can answer without boasting about:
💡Elon smoking a doob on Youtube publicly and SpaceX getting a $3bn contract to to go the moon for it
💡Space joy rides for the filthy rich
💡Self-driving cars
💡Underground trains
💡Amber Heard for an ex
Our Thoughts💡: Surely after the year we've had, there are many other people far more deserving of this title than a Tony Stark wannabe who just spent the GDP of several countries on a privatized space race?
Yes, nothing says "Save the planet" than floating around in space like a goof and entering a pissing contest with billionaires 👋
More from TIME Magazine in 2021:
💡Singer Olivia Rodrigo: Entertainer of the Year
💡Gymnast Simone Biles: Athlete of the Year
💡Vaccine Scientists: Heroes of the Year
Cities 🚘 : And the award for The World's Most Congested City goes to- London!
New analysis reveals drivers spending an average of 148 hours in traffic jams in London this year.
Meanwhile, Pret continues to lament the lack of commuters heading into Piccadilly lmao
A surge in the number of cycle lanes has been blamed for the city's congestion, according to Traffic info supplier 'Inrix'.
Ok, are we missing something? Did Inrix just blame cyclists? When have you EVER witnessed a queue of bikes clogging up Oxford Street?!
Our Thoughts💡: Cycling is cheaper than a gym membership and faster than any damn car. Not to mention, totally environment friendly.
Buy a bike for Christmas y'all 🚴
According to traffic information supplier Inrix, Paris is the 2nd most congested global city.
This is after Paris Mayor- Anne Hidalgo's latest effort to restrict traffic by banning cars in four central districts in the city.
💡Boris Johnson: This congestion pricing stuff is tricky
💡Paris: Hold my baguette 🥖
💡#3: Brussels ranked as the 3rd most congested city
💡#4: Moscow
💡#5: New York
Our Thoughts💡: What governments don't know: No amount of measures can contain traffic, as vaccination rates increase and people finally turn off their screens.
The basic instinct to booze and binge> EVERYTHING💯
Quicker Bites:
Pfizer booster shots are effective against Omicron, Israeli study says.
New Zealand is banning tobacco.
Kim Kardashian passes the baby law bar exam, getting one step closer to being an attorney.
Human Rights Day was celebrated worldwide this past weekend.
Israeli PM visits UAE for the 1st time following normalisation agreement.
UK hosts G7 summit of foreign ministers.
Australia joins diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
World population set to decline for the 1st time in centuries says study.
Jury finds Jussie Smollett guilty on 5 accounts of disorderly conduct.
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