Another headline was that “Coronavirus infections rise in England for fourth week". Hospital admissions for Covid and flu also increasing fast, particularly among the elderly.
You recall that during and post-covid there was a certain degree of triumphalism and sometimes arrogant tone coming from some of our top advisers cum politicians , the "agents" and the “nou bann” followers, bragging then about China's zero-Covid policy and even pointing to the calamitous number of covid deaths in other countries.
We will not go to the extent of accusing them of being advocates of the so-called “Asian values” or of supremacist ideologies. We have become immune to such idiosyncrasies now; it is just that occasionally one of our many latent “nou bann” silos succeed in escaping from the clutches of our “ vivre-ensemble” to spew out some venoms…it happens in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic nation still forging ahead to build up its “Mauritianism”.
But ladies and gentlemen, we should try harder , perhaps this quote may help : “Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
