Maybe you haven’t parsed it correctly.

‘Coronavirus-sniffing-dog pilot program’ is ambiguous and leaves open to interpretation whether it’s a coronavirus-sniffing-dog-pilot program or a coronavirus-sniffing-dog pilot-program.

Either way around, the word ‘programme’ has been woefully misspelt … leading me to wonder how confident I’d feel about flying, tens of thousands of feet above the Earth, without a parachute, in a contraption designed, manufactured, fabricated, maintained and flown by people whose intellectual capacity does not seem to stretch even as far as basic grammar …

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But … be that as it may … in the former case, it’s actually surprisingly clever: not only is it cheaper than employing human pilots ¹, but they’ll refuse to take off in the first place, if they detect anyone called ‘Ro(h)na(h)’ sneaking onboard … which will prevent the spread of the virus beyond the confines of the cabin, because all that need be done to contain it is a controlled detonation of the plane and passengers — which will have the doubly beneficial effect of creating a gap in the market for a new plane, offsetting the economic downturn we are experiencing thanks to the pandemic.

Of course, I’m a little hazy why, under the circumstances, people are being allowed to fly anywhere at all, let alone to foreign countries, in the midst of a global pandemic … but I’m not a medical practitioner of any kind, let a lone a virologist or epidemiologist, so what would I know?

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¹ It’s not as cheap as using pigeons to play Pong for corn, no … but still decidedly cheaper than humans.