Why were rumshops al­lowed to re­open at the height of an on­go­ing pan­dem­ic? (No­tice I use the term rumshops and not those fan­cy sound­ing name like pubs, tav­erns and inns. Be­cause that’s what they re­al­is­ti­cal­ly are).

Of course, many are ask­ing, af­ter a coro­n­avirus han­dling par ex­cel­lence, why did the very same ad­min­is­tra­tion per­mit po­ten­tial virus-spread­ing rumshops to re­open this ear­ly?

Po­lit­i­cal pres­sure, that’s why.

This is an elec­tion year there­fore those in charge are on the de­fense from the ex­pect­ed neg­a­tive on­slaught from their op­po­nents.

Even at the height of the glob­al lock­down on busi­ness­es and trav­el, those clam­or­ing po­lit­i­cal pow­er were open­ly chastis­ing the ones whose job it is to con­tain the virus. And for what? For the de­lay in the re­open­ing of rumshops. Makes you won­der, just like an ex­ces­sive mur­der toll, will a high coro­n­avirus death toll el­e­vate the chances of those seek­ing to re­place those in pow­er?

Will it (coro­n­avirus deaths) be used as an ef­fec­tive weapon on the po­lit­i­cal ros­trum? And, are those seek­ing pow­er very con­scious of this po­ten­tial dan­ger hence the dri­ve to re­open rumshops and then use to their ad­van­tage its in­evitable hor­ren­dous re­sults?

De­spite the World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion’s warn­ing to main­tain re­stric­tions, do we re­al­ly think we’re im­mune from this ap­par­ent sec­ond wave?

Yes, God loves us, but do we re­al­ly think He is ex­clu­sive­ly a Tri­ni? We need to un­der­stand that the pow­er of God is more im­por­tant than the pol­ish of man.

Open your eyes and ears peo­ple, Covid-19 is spread­ing glob­al­ly again. And while in all fair­ness and con­cern to our cit­i­zens out on cruise ships and abroad, we need to keep in mind that new cas­es are be­ing iden­ti­fied just like be­fore, im­port­ed. Yes, there are es­sen­tial busi­ness ser­vices need­ed to keep open, but rumshops?

Lloyd Ra­goo

Ch­agua­nas