2021 – The Good News

To put it mildly, we didn’t unveil this year with undiluted joy, as the Chinese virus has no intention of waning any time soon. Numerous victims didn’t survive through Corona, to enjoy this year, and long term secondary problems are crippling many more. Let us all spare a respectful moment for them and their loved-ones.

However, let’s not dwell on the dismal elements of our existence and steer our focus onto the Good News at the launch of this new year.

While Mr. Biden is mooching around the Oval office, looking for a spot to park his Zimmer frame he takes a moment to give his helpers some autographs. He’s not looking so sprightly, but he can lean on forty years of political experience, should he forget himself, or his message. The Good News is that he has a Vice in the shape of Ms. Harris, on whom he can rely or succumb to, in the fullness of time.

We are now enjoying an absolute glut of snow, which turns on and off to confuse you. But there is always replenishment to top up the snowman, so there’s plenty of Good News for bored kids, even if the traffic grinds to a standstill from time to time.

Then we have the EU, who can’t seem to distribute the Covid jabs or their unskilled migrants either. Their sluggish bureaucracy is throttling their otherwise unfettered command of Europe. However, the Good News is that they can always blame it on Britain, who unceremoniously divorced themselves from the EU at the end of 2020. And much was the merriment on the Anglo side of the English Channel, but don’t tell the Germans!

Yes, the Good News is that this Kung Flu is a very welcome distraction from all problems caused by incompetent governments. It’s opportune to conveniently postpone the next election, if the outcome looks gloomy. «Let’s wait until the virus has dearly departed» can be heard by unyielding politicians, in the knowledge that we will need to learn to live with it until the next bug.

China has to be top of the league in Good News, and has survived gloriously, as the perpetrator of the whole shemozzle. Their economy is booming with that trend escalating. And we smile benevolently while they buy up and chide the world, alternating between which country they blame for their Wu-Flu thing, that came from them in the first place.

Good News for the billionaires and pseudo celebrities, who are getting richer too, but I don’t suppose they’ll feel inclined to throw any scraps to the hoi polloi. While we enjoy lockdowns, restrictions and no holidays, they can waltz off into the sunset in their private jets – because that’s one of the little perks that goes with the package.

The last piece of Good News is that while they are moving the goal posts of controls and constraints, we are likely to save ourselves lots of bother with Easter bunnies this year because our government is already considering relieving us of these celebrations – all in the name of this illusive virus. What a saving on calories and money.

But remember: «It’s not happy people who are thankful, it’s thankful people who are happy» – Anonymous

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