Crisis signage
on California
street corner
"SHARE your toilet paper" … depending how literally you interpret this, it could be quite alarming. But Jonny Blue was doing his bit in California to help in the coronavirus crisis.
Disturbed by empty store shelves and reports of hoarding, he stood on a street corner in the town of Encinitas, according to Huffington Post, holding up a homemade cardboard sign with a simple request: "Share your toilet paper."
The response was immediate and positive. Drivers honked horns in support and stopped to drop off rolls of toilet paper. Just as quickly, Blue would hand rolls to those in need.
Blue, a physical therapist, said he plans to be out on the corner again "to encourage people to be better" amid the global pandemic.
He gave a few rolls to a grateful motorist who said he came up empty at several stores.
"He was like, 'Do you want me to pay you?' I said, 'No, man. Somebody gave it to me. Take it.'
"I think people want a sense of community," Blue said. "When things are really challenging, people are looking to band together and be unified."
Great sentiments. What I still cannot understand though is why toilet roll should be so much in demand and such an item for hoarding.
Crisis TV series
MEANWHILE, TV channel Fox News is to cater to the concerns of the American people during the coronavirus crisis with a three-part prime time series on Hunter Biden, son of the probable Democrat presidential candidate, according to the New Yorker.
The series, to be he co-hosted by conservative TV personalities Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson plus Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's personal lawyer, will attempt to soothe the anxieties of Fox viewers who have suddenly been plunged into uncertainty about the activities of Joe Biden's son, the paper says.
"'People are trapped inside their homes, they're worried, they're scared, and they don't know where to turn for accurate information about Hunter Biden,' Hannity said.'"
Giuliani said "the deep state" had limited Americans' access to essential Hunter Biden facts during the pandemic crisis.
The Fox hosts will attempt to answer what Carlson called "the most important question on our viewers' minds: Did Hunter Biden cause the coronavirus?"
Yep, the election is never far away. This is satirist Andy Borowitz again. But will they be able to hold an election?
Red/yellow cards
SHOULD the International Rugby Board reconsider the red and yellow card rules? Reader Koos Slabber of Ballito, says a rethink is needed.
The kick-off infringement in the Sharks-Stormers match was clearly a red card offence, he says – but the ref overruled the TMO to call yellow, meaning there was no 80-minute farce of 15 men playing 14.
"Rugby is a 15-man game. To send off players and force an uneven contest is unacceptable and stupid.
"The IRB must abolish this. Immediately replace those identified by yellow/red card so we can watch a 15-man game for 80 minutes. I can think of at least 10 ways to punish the culprits."
I couldn't agree more. Surrendering the match fee would wonderfully concentrate the mind.
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Tailpiece
"I JUST bought a new hearing aid. It cost me R12 000, but it's state of the art. It's perfect.'
"Really? What kind is it?"
"Twelve-thirty."
Last word
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. - George Orwell
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