Pride: Oh how we’ve had to suffer people posting their pics with pride from exotic international destinations, while sitting alone binge-watching Netflix.
Envy: Well Donald Trump, you were envious of China’s success and attacked them with duties and trade barriers. The ‘Chinese’ virus as you call it just might be nature’s retaliation for your sins.
Gluttony: Empty shelves at Walmart? Perfect!
Greed: Are you still boasting about how much money you’ve made in the stock market? Making a small fortune selling knick-knacks or a nifty software app? How about Facebook and Amazon trying to takeover the world? Perhaps now you’ll feel a bit of empathy for those of us with little ambition and who are incapable of innovation?
Lust: Not much of this going on now – with bars, cinemas and restaurants closed (so much for dating) and self-isolation there’s not much room for that sort of fun. A pity really.
Sloth: Probably the only ‘sin’ that shouldn’t be a sin at all. It’s finally fashionable to be a lazy bum.
Wrath: Angry environmental protesters take note: Nature doesn’t approve of hypocrisy. Drive home, fill your plastic shopping bags with whatever toilet paper you can find, turn on the heat (or air conditioning) and stay put.
Image from the MET: Representing the vice of greed, this image belongs to a series of prints of the Seven Deadly Sins, engraved by Pieter van der Heyden after drawings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
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Thanks Mal, it is always entertaining to read your bons mots. I propose another deadly sin, Stupidity, which Trudeau displays a-plenty and which, inexorably, is driving business out of Canada. If you ever again come to the the Centre-of-the-Universe, aka Ottawa, I will gladly stand you some drinks.
Can’t wait. Could use a drink Ray. Agree about Trudeau – has to emulate Trump. What a dink.