Obituary: Farewell Jolly Good Fellow!

Monday, March 08, 2021

The harsh cruelty of COVID-19 is that pain is now universal, we are all gripped by an overbearing blanket of pain.

Someone is crying, another is hurtling in fear and the other is sedated by the many tragedies. The losses are immediate and tragic. There is no shoulder to cry on.

We are all hoping that one day it will subside and ultimately stop like a storm; and then we might have time to pick-up the pieces, count the losses and perhaps even grieve-for we never grieved.

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