With the first of May, things were shifting from "School Mode" to "Summer Vacation Mode". In WSA's case, they were planning on using summer to do some relatively minor renovations, mostly to deal with wear and tear that accumulates normally. However, the 2021 IAC would be holding the most attention, especially since there would not only be Olympic Athletes comparing their own achievements to "amateur" Animalian Athletes (due to the 2020 Olympics being postponed due to Coronavirus), though it was expected that the Animalians' "scores" would be higher, ranging from slightly to considerably.
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Speaking of Coronavirus, the Animalian and/or Dinotopian version of the vaccine was now officially being distributed in Lyre/Animalia and its colonies. However, no matter whether it was the human, Animalian, or Dinotopian, there were still those who were holding out against it for ridiculous reasons that they'd "share" on social media, such as the vaccines containing microchips designed to "control our behavior", or claiming that the vaccines would cause autism. Professor Nova was able to stomp the "microchip" claim flat by giving a details explanation of what said microchip would need to do to control people, while Dr. Jones (who was confirmed to be autistic) had a really clever comeback to the claim that vaccines "cause autism".
"I don't mind, actually. Being autistic is preferable to being an idiot."
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To "celebrate" the pandemic finally drawing to an end, the 2021 IAC had decided to move certain events to other colonies to both add some variety, and help promote some new things at each colony. For example, the 2021 IAC Bodybuilding competition was being held at Mieni Atoll not only to help bring back the tourist industry to Mieni, but also to change ideas of "beach bods". One of the most unusual competitors was "Rock", known on the internet as Animalia's "Bald Bull". He and his new girlfriend, Mable, were heading to Mieni to not only compete in the Bodybuilding tournament, but also as their "first date". Of course, being a "bald bull" made him a seemingly perfect target for internet trolls to make fun of his appearance, but he didn't have to worry too much about this since there were internet detectives/truth-finders who were able to call them out for being snide morons.
Heiya Island, on the other hand, was going to be the location of both an, official, Animalian Comic Convention as well as a Mixed Martial Arts Tournament and Exposition. Animalia Ambassadoria was going to be sending some to cover that as well as do an interview with Ammy and Tsukuyomi about their planned "samurai prep school", both to dispel some myths and get it set up as a branch of WSA.
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There were also some minor things going on, mainly about Miss Juliet dealing with the aftermath of that night at the Meat Market. She was still embarrassed about it, and often responded to questions about it with a mute "Je préfère ne pas en parler.", but fortunately the PR-MD was doing a good job at keeping the French gossip magazines that only cared about scandal out, so she was reconsidering her stance on her girls stripping/"whoring", though she still wasn't allowing it. Miss Fabina was one of those who was helping her adapt to her manifesting RHD symptoms, when she wasn't working with the 'gyaru' girls Ammy had sent her as part of Miss Fabina's "Plastic Recycling Program".