Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily in partnership with the Brain Drink, Ārepa. Today on The Spinoff, the identity of the real Santa Claus is revealed, your summer TV watching is decided and a thought-provoking look at why Garfield is experiencing yet another online renaissance. But first, catching Covid-19 for Christmas isn’t inevitable – we just need to remember what caution looks like.
Charlotte Muru-Lanning: “As we near the finish line for this year – among a flurry of work functions, mounds of ham and a tangle of last-minute gift wrapping – the air is filled with anticipation of the impending summer period. But that’s not all that’s in the air. Although the prime minister recently said that ‘this will be the first Christmas and summer holiday in three years where we haven’t had Covid hanging over us’, the numbers tell a vastly different story. Aotearoa is in the middle of a growing outbreak of Covid-19, with no sign of it slowing down in time for Christmas lunch.”
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It’s Garfield’s world and we’re just living in it, according to Bryer Oden: “Ladies and gentlemen, I am here to inform you that we are well into the Garfpocalypse. I can’t seem to go a day without seeing countless Garfield edits as I scroll through my Instagram feed. Every move I make, every corner I take, there is a smug, lasagne-loving cat, taunting me. But how and why has a cartoon created in 1978 made such a resurgence into our collective conscience?”
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Covid for Christmas
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