South African Covid-19 News and Discussions 2

[Paulsie]

Lol, and there it is, apartheids fault

The EC MEC also blamed the 10mil scooter disaster on apartheid. Apparently it was the reason they could not fox it in 26 years and had to resort to finding innovative solutions like the scooters.

 

[LCBXX]

Obviously overweight.

I had trouble telling it was a she. At first I thought he.



Ja, no. That's obese. It's not just a bit overweight.

I just ignore these reports attempting to glorify single nuanced deaths as it's nothing more than carefully crafted fear-mongering to try an make the issue look massive.

Very hard to make sense of these numbers, but scary either way:

SA Covid cases growing at a higher rate than any other country - but we have one of the lowest mortality rates | News24

South Africa is one of the top 10 worst affected countries in terms of outright Covid-19 infections reported, but the number of deaths, 4 346, are among the lowest globally.

www.news24.com

It's specifically written to scare you.

 

[Okty]

Gauteng COVID-19 deaths expected to peak in August – Expert

The number of daily COVID-19 deaths in Gauteng is expected to peak next month, according to engineer and Pandemic Data and Analytics (PANDA) member Piet Streicher.

mybroadband.co.za

PANDA co-ordinator Nick Hudson previously slated the government’s COVID-19 modelling, stating that it amounts to scaremongering.


Hudson said that “just as one group of modellers goes to ground after getting things catastrophically wrong for foreseeable reasons, a new one emerges to repeat the trick”.


He highlighted that the official modelling of South Africa’s projected mortalities from COVID-19 started at 375,000, which was completely wrong.


Over time, these forecasts were significantly reduced to 40,000 mortalities, which he believes is still a drastic over-estimate.

So... no MegaDeth music yet...

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Lovely quotes from that BBC article:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1283289065060732929

 

[MiW]

One giant complication: obesity. (Pun intended)

"I spoke to her every day. On Friday, I phoned her and she said she is fine. She is resting, drinking her Oros and sleeping. That's all she wanted to do."

And as Winde said, keep your blood sugar down.

 

[LCBXX]

Lovely quotes from that BBC article:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1283289065060732929

It's been like this for years and will remain like this for as long as the ANC is unaccountable.

 

[BBSA]

Lovely quotes from that BBC article:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1283289065060732929

No worries, the NHI will fix this.

 

[Brontosaurus]

Laugh it up. It's funny until they take something away that you like, or need.

And before you retort with something you think is witty, go rewatch the videos of the army and police beating our fellow South Africans in the streets during lockdown.

They already have. I can't go to the gym and I can't drink.

But I'm okay with that, because the purpose of these bans is to save lives, just like wearing a mask.

I find it funny is a really sad way that people think compulsory mask wearing during a worldwide pandemic is some form of tyranny.

 

[Lupus]

John Steenhuisen | Citizens honoured the lockdown agreement, govt did not | News24

President Cyril Ramaphosa has broken a social compact with the citizens of the country, writes <strong>John Steenhuisen</strong>.

www.news24.com

This is the ANC governement, didn't expect anything from them, they cleared a field for a school in my area in 2014, it's 6 years later and the field is just overgrown again. No school, not a single public school built in Roodepoort since 1994. In fact they started building a high school in my dads area when I was in high school, they finished it in about 2014, almost 15 years since they started.

 

[LCBXX]

They already have. I can't go to the gym and I can't drink.

But I'm okay with that, because the purpose of these bans is to save lives, just like wearing a mask.

I find it funny is a really sad way that people think compulsory mask wearing during a worldwide pandemic is some form of tyranny.

There's enough data to show that lockdowns don't work.

 

[Polymathic]

This is the ANC governement, didn't expect anything from them, they cleared a field for a school in my area in 2014, it's 6 years later and the field is just overgrown again. No school, not a single public school built in Roodepoort since 1994. In fact they started building a high school in my dads area when I was in high school, they finished it in about 2014, almost 15 years since they started.

They started building something behind the library over 17 years ago and as off today only the shell is complete and struts for roofing has been completed a few months back.

 

[Geoff.D]

Network24 -

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What a useless arsehole, typical ANC idiot deployment

 

[Lupus]

There's enough data to show that lockdowns don't work.

Case in point South Africa, strictest in the world.

 

[Lupus]

They started building something behind the library over 17 years ago and as off today only the shell is complete and struts for roofing has been completed a few months back.

Sounds right, same idiots who paid R100k for a 500l jojo tank and a tap

 

[Lupus]

Has the ANC government actually built anything? I know they've renamed things, but have they actually built anything? Even the "universities" they built were existing ones that were just blended to form a new one.

 

[Temujin]

Has the ANC government actually built anything? I know they've renamed things, but have they actually built anything? Even the "universities" they built were existing ones that were just blended to form a new one.

Nkandla

 

[Lupus]

Nkandla

Well yeah, but I mean it's not built really well is it.

 

[neoprema]

So, when this Vaccine finally drops (or more than one) - I've noticed there seems to be a sentiment amongst some that they WONT be taking it, as they're worried it has been rushed.

My question then is, will we still need to wear masks to protect those who are not comfortable taking the vaccine because we may give them the virus even though we ourselves are protected?

I've been reading that we might be wearing masks well into 2022 because even if maximum penetration is possible with a vaccine by year-end, many people are not going to take it.

 

[Sinbad]

Fuk dat shiit. If a vaccine is freely available and people refuse it, I'm not wearing a mask for them.

 

[Grant]

Ah, I hope he is part of the NCCC. The crook in the doek must getting worried. Department of Minerals? Maybe. I guess he'd have to engage with the mines.

Ah, I hope he is part of the NCCC. The crook in the doek must getting worried. Department of Minerals? Maybe. I guess he'd have to engage with the mines.

He spent too much time in close proximity to Hazenile - a rare and powerful mineral, not to be mucked with.