The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday January 25th, 2022 – National Irish Coffee Day
One Drinks Party Too Many: Boris Johnson and Breaching Lockdowns by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
It might not be quite within the bounds of good taste to compare military calculations of a bridge too far – the title used in Cornelius Ryan’s work on the disastrous Allied airborne operation during the Second World War – with the latest foolish, mendacious and buffoonish efforts of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but on some level, the analogy works.
Throughout the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020, the Prime Minister was pressing his own assault on the pandemic fortifications developed in response to SARS-CoV-2. He had already shown himself incapable of understanding, let alone following health directions, shaking hands with infected patients, and furnishing the British public with inscrutable information. But then came those libation, food-ladened parties held during the lockdown phases, gatherings which often eschewed social distancing.
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“What to Do” #poem by Bohdan Yuri
“What do you do
If upon death,
You’re in a place
With no time, no space.”
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A fistful of cactus #016 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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