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We shall not be moved

The Covid traffic-light system, besides requiring more swat than the Road Code, has the makings of a fiendish version of Monopoly.

“Your haberdasher has Delta: go into MIQ and miss three turns.”

Those who draw the “Refuse the Vaccine” card will miss turns indefinitely, their place on the board somewhere between purdah and purgatory.

It’s always fascinating to find out which hill a person chooses to die on – if only one could tell from the latest roil of protests how many will progress to become unvaxed desperados.

Ostensibly, last weekend’s protesters were the Groundswell tractor brigade, snarling traffic to decry the Government’s Body!”

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