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Strolling in the rain.

Here's larks.

Someone had left graffiti on the advertising hoarding at a bus stop in Poplar Square in the dulcet now half shuttered mercantile town of Naas.

The hoarding carried a government publicity poster appealing to the citizenry to take appropriate measures of care during the present flu panic.

Flu panic is my phrase not the government's.

But the graffiti artist had a few phrases of his own.

He or she had covered various parts of the poster in little white stickers which altered some of the advice and slogans to humorous effect.

Instead of "Covid 19" the poster read "Covid 1984," an apparant reference to the George Orwell book about totalitarian government.

The phrase: "wearing a face covering helps us to protect one another" had been partially altered to read "wearing a face covering helps us to virtue signal to one another."

The phrase "Department of Health" now read "Department of Propaganda."

Another part had been changed so that the phrase "Irish people" read "Irish sheeple."

Obviously the graffiteur is a fan of the opprobrious television cartoon series South Park.

The unknown graffiti artist had also affixed stickers listing people he called experts, to wit: Doctor Rashid Buttar, Doctor Andrew Kaufman and another that I couldn't make out, Doctor Jodi something or other.

I was rather enthused by the whole thing.

Not just by the fact that Irish graffiti artists of the year 2020 clearly have an unusually high intellectual capacity as well as a good dash of genuinely insightful political awareness.

But also because for all the vandalism of governmental sensibilities implicit in the act, the whole thing had been accomplished without doing any damage whatsoever to public property, neither to the poster, nor the bus stop, nor the advertising hoarding itself.

Now that's what I call music.