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Stop sharing COVID-19 Shit

Social media is a very dangerous tool – much like a little bit of knowledge of a subject is a dangerous thing.

Before you share your latest FUCKING revelation with your ‘friends’ in the hope of being FIRST do yourself a favour and Google the shit out of what you want to share.

IF you Google it and your ‘nugget of insider information’ is:

  • NOT being reported on by a recognised news publication
  • NOT referencing someone of public stature and medical knowledge
  • NOT backed up by a REPUTABLE journalist with many years of PROVEABLE writing and articles
  • NOT really believable
  • BLAMING someone or a group of people for the occurence of whatever is being written about IN THE ABSENCE of PROOF

THEN do us all a favour DO NOT share your fucking useless piece of shit fake news article that will ONLY create more questions than answers.

DO US ALL A FAVOUR: Rather use the energy that you would have expended on reading and sharing your shit on ACTUALLY helping and making a difference to someone’s life.

YOU HAVE BEEN FUCKING WARNED.

Maybe it is time to remind you of the first and last stanza of the poem IF, by Rudyard Kipling:

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!

To put it bluntly:

Step up to the plate and be a fucking man for a change.

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Alan Straton

Chief Cook, Bottle Washer and Broom Mechanic at MyPE
Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." See more articles by Alan.