A different view on current affairs & history
In his typical Rough Rider approach, Juju opined on a radio program on the 12th January that vaccination should not be forced on anyone, just like the wearing of condoms is not compulsory. However, with his Featherlite IQ, he failed to realise the fatal flaw in his argument – other people do have the right to insist that you wear a condom when you ‘interact’ with them and, with Covid, that interaction is happening all the time whether you like it or not.
The ANC held a gala dinner in Polokwane on the 7th January in the runup to their annual mastubarory celebrations of their founding. With tables being sold for up to R1.2 million to pay outstanding salaries, Squirrel Ramaphosa, no great orator, was about to bore the audience with his keynote address when the power failed. This made lots of people happy. The RET faction quietly cheered along with the doomsayers outside of the ANC tent. The group that smiled the most were those there that could get on with their drinking and not having to be bored by Squirrel’s laborious speech as is his style.
For once, that poster child of ANC incompetence – Eskom – wasn’t to blame, but sabotage which made the reference to Götterdämmerung particualy apt.
After weeks of speculation as to whether he would play in the 2022 Australian Open given his refusal to get vaccinated, Novac Djokovic landed in Australia on the 5th of January. He was immediately detained for hours before authorities took him to a government detention hotel for failure to comply with Australian entry regulations with respect to Covid.
The good news is that 2022 seems to be the year that we finally get Covid under control and learn to live with what we can’t control. Although SA’s vaccination rates have been low – only 28% fully vaccinated and 0.8% boosted – we are probably approaching herd immunity. The SA Medical Research Council estimates Covid deaths at nearly 300,000 or more than 3x the official death figures which implies that most people have already been infected. This is borne out by random sampling for antibodies and that our recent fourth wave which hardly caused a ripple.
For all those who partied like it was 2019, I wish you a speedy recovery.
In the 27 years of ANC misrule where they have comprehensively failed to achieve a meaningful improvement to the majority of Black people, the ANC resorts to victimhood and propagates tropes to justify themselves. The rapid development of vaccines for Covid and its unequal distribution was a ready-made crisis for the ANC to exploit in order to deflect attention from their appalling handling of it.
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Just over a year ago, Trump, the sentient nartjie, tried to steal the election from Biden, the sentient Zimmer frame. He extensively pushed out lies and fake news using Twitter and the good old boys from Fox News. His enablers from Fox, Hannity, Carlson and Ingraham, were only too happy to peddle his lies, boasts and misdirections and even repackage them and weaponise them for him. Trump is barely articulate and seldom completes a whole sentence. But Fox had his back – he could rely on them to speak in whole sentences and eloquently propagate his half-baked views. Twitter, however, did react adversely and eventually banned him for consistently peddling falsehoods on their platform. Trump then threatened to start his own social media brand which he did twice in 2021, so far without success. The other things happening in the Trumpiverse were that, apart from holing up at Mar-a-Laager (another tax write off, the resort itself as well as his staying there), it is obvious that he is positioning himself for another run at the presidency. This was my view of the World According to Trump in January last year.
Many of the anti-vaxxers, especially the gliteratti and elites, are under the misapprehension that rules do not apply to them. They are especially verbose about their right to refuse to be vaccinated. It is their right to do so, but then they have to pay the penalties for their behaviour such as being refused access to certain venues, modes of transport and even countries. Why should Djokovic be able to flout the rules of any country at will? The Australian government rightly did not ignore the middle finger that this foreigner waved into the Ozzies’ faces and promptly deported him.
The drawing and idea was developed by Blaine McCleland whereas the commentary is by Dean McCleland
First and foremost I have an admission to make. The content of this blog is totally plagiarised. Not one word is mine. When I read the original in my brother’s excellent book on Port Elizabeth entitled: Port Elizabeth: Days of Yours and Mine Part 2, I stole it. Pure and simple. That was recompense for stealing all my photos to use in his book and for the fact that many of the facts and ideas were purlioned off my blogs on PE. So fair’s fair.
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