The Sceptic Blog

A rich man who had lived during the coronavirus pandemic died of natural causes years later and went towards Heaven.

The Angel in Charge asked him: “When you cancelled your house cleaners during the lockdown did you carry on paying them anyway?”

“No”.

“Why not”, asked the Angel?

“Because I didn’t have to”, the man said confidently; and he would have explained why he was quite in the right but the Angel was asking another question.

“Did you stay in your town home and resist the temptation to travel to your second home in the country where they didn’t yet have much COVID?”

“No.”

“Why not, asked the Angel?

“Because I didn’t have to”, said the man, and he would have carried on to explain why it was no real risk to the country and the law he was breaking was daft and didn’t really mean to apply to him but the Angel wasn’t listening and asked another question.

“Did you use your own money to pay the workers you couldn’t use in your factory during lockdown rather than the public money?”

“No.”

“Why not?”

“Because I didn’t have to”, said the man, and was about to give the Angel a lecture in free market economics; but the Angel had walked away and shut the gate.  The man tried it but it was locked.

“Hold on”, shouted the man “Why have you locked me out? Why won’t you let me in?”

“Because I don’t have to.”