The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday November 13th, 2021
The Devolution of Evolution by Bohdan Yuri
On October 24, 2021 the average weekly deaths from covid-19 in the United States was 1509 with a total number of deaths at 736,112. Recently the cases have been decreasing after a late summer surge; but with the winter enclosures ahead the cases will surely rise. All the more reason to get vaccinated.
Fortunately, this winter the world will have a vaccine available to fight the virus. Unfortunately, while many are getting vaccinated there is still a great minority who will refuse to get vaccinated. Their reasons vary:
“Nobody, especially the Government is gonna tell me what to put in my arm or not!”
The government didn’t think they would have to mandate, they assumed that you would welcome the free vaccine to protect you from the pandemic.
“Who knows what the serums actually contain?’
It contains a vaccine that may prevent your death from covid-19.
“What about all those other things…?”
There’s only this one thing: it’s safe, it works, it saves lives.
If that logic isn’t enough then I’d say, “Fine, you win — Don’t Get Vaccinated!”
In this nuanced age of social media distractions we may be spending too much time trying to convince the non-vaxers to get vaccinated.
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Window Pain #poem by Pamela Hunt
“The cat…slate gray, stands sentry-
At the bedroom window, sentry for centuries…standing like an old, tall building,
Green eyes panicky….”
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FW de Klerk: A Negotiator Before Defeat by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Rarely is the pragmatist admired. Be it in policy or politics, such a figure induces suspicion, a concern that principles will have to be subordinated to broader goals. True dreamers and visionaries, for all their glaring faults, can take the accolades; the pragmatists can be given lower pegging.
These differences have proven stark with the late FW de Klerk, South Africa’s last apartheid president. “De Klerk,” suggested Mac Maharaj, formerly official spokesperson for President Jacob Zuma, “was a man of the moment and [Nelson] Mandela was a man of history.” The late Colin Eglin went one better in his observation of the two men. “A relatively conservative Afrikaner leader decided to negotiate before he had lost, and an imprisoned leader of a liberation movement decided to negotiate before he had won.”
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Ma-Siri & Alexa 21#17 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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