Was the wool pulled over our eyes?

STOP whatever you’re doing right now and go home.

You cannot work, you cannot swim and you’re not allowed to buy slops.

Forget about attending your dead mom’s funeral, and if we see you smoking, you will be jailed.

But don’t panic, it’s for your own good so you don’t all drop dead. Sound familiar?

It’s been four years since the world went completely nuts and, low and behold, today you hardly hear the word ‘coronavirus’.

I haven’t heard anything about the bug that was going to kill the world for ages, until last week when the US Centre for Disease Control released a statement basically saying it’s okay now, Covid-19 is just a nasty strain of the flu, but just so you don’t think we overreacted, please stay home for a few days whenever you feel a bit snotty.

Mmm.., as far as I know, that’s what we’ve been doing for decades - stay home when you feel ill so as not to pass whatever is rotting inside you on to others – not shut the whole planet down apart from feverishly digging graves.

Yes, people died from Covid-19. I also lost several family members and friends, but they all had underlying issues ranging from asthma to obesity.

My 98-year-old grandmother contracted Covid-19 and survived.

Yours truly had it three times, and I’m still here to tell you that some will say our country is run by a criminal syndicate.

I smoked right through it and wore that stupid facemask almost never.

Anybody who ever thought that they’re safe standing in a queue in a supermarket full of sniffers, as long as they wear what’s from a medical perspective a sponge, and as long as they don’t buy roast chicken, is a complete idiot.

Before Covid, during Covid, and right now more people meet their end at the hands of others than this virus could muster.

70 people every day.

Murdered!

Over December alone, 1 427 people died in road accidents in South Africa.

Measured against the coronavirus spectacle we should all stop working right away because it’s simply too risky to leave the house, and Christmas must be cancelled forever?

One point I’m trying to make is that you cannot stop living because you’re afraid you might die.

The other point I’m trying to make is that you cannot bring the whole world to a standstill, literally, because of a flu virus, or any virus for that matter.

Anybody or anything who says you must close your hair salon or spaza shop indefinitely, and go sit at home and starve while you lose everything that keeps you alive, is up to something sinister.

In my opinion, Covid-19 and all those extreme measures that went with it, was the biggest scam this planet has ever seen.

There, I’ve said it.

Nobody will make me believe otherwise because I'm not a sheep.