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Pepperpot - August 28

Jamaican people head 'tuff' What more will it take to get Jamaicans to see that COVID-19 is serious business? I hope these high-profile people who are gallivanting all over the place without face masks or social distancing are not waiting until one of them dies from the coronavirus to be convinced. Hard to believe that so many sensible people allow themselves to contract COVID-19. How Jamaican people head 'tuff' so? Politicians head 'tuff'...

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