Just another working stiff

Get back, fools! It's Covid Christmas!

"He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself..."

We speak of course of Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Santa's tubby and less cheery brother, who has declared Santa an Essential Service.

"I have officially designated Santa Claus as an essential service provider and authorized to deliver toys, treats and good cheer to the children of Ontario," Premier  Poohbah decrees. "I have also designated the Elves' Toy Workshop as an essential manufacturing business..."

So Santa and his innocents will get all the perqs given to doctors, nurses, support staff, hydro crews, tradesfolk, plexiglass-shrouded supermarket sacrificials, transit trolls and brave Big Box drones.

Primary perqs:

. Increased workloads and pandemic stress

. Little recognition of sacrifice

. No hazard pay for obvious risks

. Fistfights with angry scofflaws

. Never a thank you

And get this: Santa, elves and reindeer are exempt from any Covid cautions! No masks! No social distancing! Dirty Claus hands from house to house!

Lock down the North Pole Boxing Day.

Thanks Grand Poobah Ford!

Doug Ford 

Today's word: Grand Poobah is a term derived from the name of the haughty character Pooh-Bah in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado (1885). In this comic opera, Pooh-Bah holds numerous exalted offices, including "First Lord of the Treasury, Lord Chief Justice, Commander-in-Chief, Lord High Admiral ... Archbishop."