Yes, it is just after midnight on DAY 280 of lockdown in South Africa, 31 December 2020 and I am listening to Queen of Hearts by Juice Newton and I am dancing on my chair while welcoming the last day of a partly crappy 2020! And listening to some great 80’s and 90’s dance music!

Partly crappy? Yes, partly, because we always have music and books! My holiday was cancelled on day 275 of lockdown and it was a total anticlimax to unpack my bags, but hey … nothing to get upset about! I just changed my plans while being stuck at home! Watch a lot of Christmas movies, a new series or two and got little to no sleep at all.

Yesterday, day 279, we good bye, Adios to uncle Des. He lost the Covid-fight just a few months after his wife, Margie, died of cancer. I am cross. No, this is an understatement: I am furious!! There are people out there who does not care about being safe and vigilant when going out of their houses everyday! They don’t care about wearing their masks, sanitising or washing their hands and just acting responsibly around other people. It makes me furious when people saying the Corono-virus is a hoax. This hoax is really out there killing people. FFS!!!! Wake up, South Africa, it is not about YOU, the individual! It is about saving the people of a country. In the last two days alone I have heard about a lot of people who died of Covid. Six of them being people I knew personally or know a person connected to them.

This is not funny anymore! Don’t tell me I’m a puppet of the South African government, because then the whole world is. What do you thinking is happening in the rest of the world? Other countries also have rules and regulations! They also have lockdown. The new infections in South Africa is causing other countries to close their borders for us. DO YOU STILL THINK THIS IS A HOAX? I say FFS again!! Wake up!! Do YOU need to get sick first or do YOU have to loose someone really close to you before you realise this is real? What if you loose your mother, father, sibling or child? Will you then get upset and curse at all the ignorant assholes for infecting you or your loved one?

Get real, people! Wake up! Wear your mask, sanitise, wash your hands regulary. If you don’t want to be safe and responsible for yourself, be it for others!

Wishing you a happy and prosperous Covid-free 2021!

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