Arm Impatient: Zero Jab Brigade

If you are over 55 years, working in the health sector or you are Chinese you have four leaf clover luck. Your luck is at the level of being kissed by your crush at high school. The above demography has already have been jabbed with the vaccine in an attempt to thwart the unrelenting fury of corona. In fact — prepare to be jealous — they are going for the second jab.

They have been selected to onboard the first class carriage of the COVID-19 vaccine train. The selection was based on an exhaustive screening process consisting of being elderly or operating the artillery to fight COVID-19 or being Chinese.

As most of you might have realised I am legally a spring chicken. My contact with health involves queuing up at Princess Marina Hospital at 4am for consultation that usually happens at 3pm when the doctor is sufficiently worked up and is now suspiciously a Covid contact.

Editor's Comment
BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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