No break for the smokers and drinkers from Prez Pozi and Dr No, but we’re still zolling ...
Somehow, we’ve managed to spend seven weeks sitting at home, pretty much sober, something which, if you’d asked me before March 26, I’d have said we could never do.
I guess Cyril Ramaphosa will have to run the proposed changes past Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and the National Coronavirus Command Council before giving us the good news. I’m not convinced that Dlamini-Zuma and Dr No, as Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize is becoming known in the Harper household these days, will want to give the smokers and drinkers a break, despite the benefits to the taxman of doing so.
Passing the spliff to the left is as natural an action as a high five or a fist bump — to me at least, after nearly 40 years of doing so — and it is going to take some unlearning. Perhaps by the time that I can finally see my mates again, not passing the joint will have ingrained itself on my muscle memory.It’s gonna be weird. Standing around, a metre and half apart, smoking our own spliffs through our masks, exhaling away from each other.
Ramaphosa didn’t announce the end of the lockdown, a lifting of the booze and cigarette ban, a return to normality, because he couldn’t. There was never any way he was going to do so. We’re still several months from the pandemic reaching its peak, no matter how long the last 49 days have taken.
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