Valentine's Day or Valentine's Day is celebrated every year on February 14. It is the day when people show their affection and send greeting cards, flowers or candy, along with love messages. But the story behind this day is a sad one.

The oldest message sent on Valentine's Day in English dates from 1477, writes BBC. The day takes its name from a famous saint, about whom several stories have appeared over time.

In popular belief, St. Valentine was a priest in third-century Rome. Emperor Claudius II forbade marriages because, he said, married men are weak soldiers, and Valentin disregarded the rule, which he thought was unfair, and continued to hold marriages in secret.

It seems that this year we will access the services of delivery couriers and nice messages. The pandemic is really affecting us, as is Valentine's Day. Bemorepanda has collected several memes about this situation.

1.Love during lockdown

2.Corona time

3.Valentine's day 2021

4.Coronavirus love

5.Spread coronavirus

6.Valentine's coming

7.Coronavirus in the air

8.Human contact

9.Contagious smile

10.Plans for 14 february

11.Corona in the air

12.Baby Yoda

13.All alone

14.Social distance and love

15.Spreading coronavirus

16.Calling on Valentine's

17.There's toilet paper

18.Switched to single

19.Stay over there

20.Valentine's day 2020 and 2021

Users should refuse to send memes to each other in order for the communication to work properly. Network bandwidth is limited, and in the face of the widespread transition to remote work, the load on them has increased.

MTS, (Mobile TeleSystems) is a mobile network operator in Russia, Armenia and Belarus with over 86,7 million subscribers. As of 2019, MTS had the largest market share of 31% in Russia.

It’s President, Alexei Kornia addressed an open letter to the company's customers, in which he warned about the increased load on the network in the conditions of remote work. He asked users to refrain from sending fun, but voluminous content.

Mr Kornia asked its users to be responsible for consuming content on the network. “This does not mean that you need to refuse to watch movies online or participate in video conferencing as part of remote work. I’m talking about that in the current situation, you can refrain, for example, from sending funny, but heavy videos in messengers to dozens of your contacts. When the number of such videos grows, this creates an optional, but significant burden on the infrastructure of operators, ”he explained.

Kornia recalled that some Internet companies have already come came to the conclusion to automatically reduce the quality of the transmitted video, removing 4K and Full HD quality from the settings. Network bandwidth is a physically limited resource, despite all the efforts of operators to maintain high-quality communication. “Memes and a good mood are important, but now you need to approach responsibly!” He concluded.

As of today, there are 588,083 confirmed cases with coronavirus and over 27,715 deaths. Out of those people who are infected, 95% or 406,594 are in mild condition while 5% (22,807) are in serious or critical condition. In order to reduce the stress of the complete lockdown, there are reports that many users send memes in large volumes to friends in order to boost the mood.

Reported by Bemorepanda