Where did you take Njung'e, you know he is in that venerable group?

@Guks
Show yourselefu

Prayer meetings of two or more have been banned. And the lord may not be where 1 or less are gathered in the name of Covid.

He seems to be charging the phone at least. The 'where' can be answered positively in a way...

If you can't take care of guks ,Bigchick is prying on the wings, she will

Life after COVID has only started today after the country recorded its first recovered case.

Thanks good people. Guks is heathy & fit. Can see the girls miss me😁😋😋

Now that we have ascertained that "The Grand Father of Peugeot" is safe and sound, shall we revert to "Life After Covid-19", if there will be one?

The Mwea Rice Industry

Old Stock

For the Mwea Rice Industry and its dependants, it is party after party.

Currently, the lockdown has created an instant high demand "payment in advance" market for our rice.

Apparently, "households" out there are buying rice as a non-perishable food stock to help weather the lockdown.

Speculators have also entered the market and are buying pickup loads in the hope the price goes up, making themselves a killing.

This all means the old stock is rapidly depleting, the rice mills are working 24/7 to meet the new demand, and everyone is happy, ecstatic even.

Furthermore, with the lockdown worldwide, Mwea Rice Industry's most dreaded enemy, the Import Cartels, cannot bring rice in to meet the rapidly rising demand.

The best part, Mwea has not seen a positive case, yet. Ignorance is bliss.

New Stock

It is raining heavily out here.

For the rice farmer, this means a new stock is out in the field.

The more it rains, the bigger a portion a farmer can till, and the better the next crop.

In essence, this means we are anticipating a bumper harvest in a situation where there is no old stock in the stores.

That is a bonus that has not been seen around here in a long, long time.

Conclusion

The Virus is a huge "blessing" for the Mwea Rice Industry and its dependants.

The near future and "Life After Covid-19" also looks very bright too.

For now.

@tycho, we do not have the luxury of smugness.

We are not the masters of our destiny.

First, despite promises going back to the colonial era, we do not own the land we farm. We are a settlement scheme.

We cannot grow any other crop despite "owning" land on some of the most arable soils and excellent weather Kenia has to offer.

The crop is subject to unfair competition from imported inferior versions of the crop.

We are poor in the midst of an astounding potential for affluence.

The Gods, in their infinite wisdom, however, have deemed it fit to inflict a triple wham of incompetent governance, Locusts, and The Virus.

Suddenly, someone is willing to pay a premium price for our hard labor.

Yes, we can rejoice. For a short time.

But smugness, allow me to differ, certainly not.

We still remember what Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome did to us.

Deep down, we know what is coming.

Allow us the joy of reveling in the fruits of our hard labor for once in a long time.

And when the pestilence finally strikes, as it surely will, we will go proudly knowing we have something in the pocket rather than in the shame of poverty.

you and guks need to be quarantined together.