South African Covid-19 News and Discussions 2

[MiW]

 

[Lupus]

Another 13000+. We're really pushing them numbers.

From within the last 9 to 14 days, the results are all over the place, average seems to be 4 days.

 

[Lupus]

Funny things going on wiht the data recently reported. WC show a -454, other provinces show a spike in cases.

Seems like someone is busy with a clean-up of the data.

Can't follow these numbers, really. Testing results are delayed, still waiting on my nieces results 12 days.

 

[Wut]

Can't follow these numbers, really. Testing results are delayed, still waiting on my nieces results 12 days.

That's crazy. I was tested on Wednesday last week and got the results on Friday. Negative, just a case of the flu.

 

[Geoff.D]

That's crazy. I was tested on Wednesday last week and got the results on Friday. Negative, just a case of the flu.

Only meaningful if you state if the test was a private or public.

 

[MiW]

This is how interprovincial travel will work under level 3 lockdown

The regulations are with immediate effect and a violation of the rules is a criminal offence, said transport minsiter Fikile Mbalula said.

www.timeslive.co.za

 

[dualmeister]

Bloody ANC make me sick.

DA in Eastern Cape writes to SIU to probe alleged PPE tender corruption in NMB | News24

The DA in the Eastern Cape says it has approached the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) to probe "potential impropriety" in the awarding of several tenders to deliver personal protective equipment (PPE) to the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality.

www.news24.com

 

[Lupus]

That's crazy. I was tested on Wednesday last week and got the results on Friday. Negative, just a case of the flu.

This was public so it's expected.

 

[Lupus]

Seems like we have finally hit our daily testing limits. The question is why have recoveries exceeded active cases recently as we are "in the eye of the storm"?

Cause the total numbers aren't accurate and the "daily" cases aren't accurate, how can they be when government tests take forever?

 

[pinball wizard]

we are "in the eye of the storm"?

What the **** does that mean?

 

[Sinbad]

What the **** does that mean?

I think most people have no clue, including the SA politicunts using it.
The eye of the storm is an area of relative calm in the middle of a hurricane.

The eye is a region of mostly calm weather at the center of strong tropical cyclones. The eye of a storm is a roughly circular area, typically 30–65 kilometers (19–40 miles) in diameter. It is surrounded by the eyewall, a ring of towering thunderstorms where the most severe weather and highest winds occur.

 

[Lupus]

What the **** does that mean?

Some bright spark in government said that, the reason why recoveries is going up is because we're in the eye of the storm or some thing or other.

 

[Geoff.D]

What the **** does that mean?

Means nothing. Yet actually, it shows how clueless the govt is. I posted what the definition of that phrase means in relation to governments and authorities in general. Seems no one takes any notice.

 

[Paulsie]

What the **** does that mean?

Ask CR, I've only borrowed his expression.

 

[ViciousClone]

Taxis at 100% capacity with travel with no more than 200km traveled, this is mind blowing.

 

[R13...]

Cause the total numbers aren't accurate and the "daily" cases aren't accurate, how can they be when government tests take forever?

They should just name them test results for the past whatever period as daily cases isn't accurate. I take all of the countries at the top are the same as even the US has backlogs going back days.

 

[IceyQ]

WATCH | BLF allocates graves to SA leaders, triggering Tshwane metro condemnation

The Black First Land First movement (BLF) has come under fire after it allocated unused graves dug at the Honingnestkrans cemetery, north of Tshwane, to government leaders.

www.timeslive.co.za

Posted here seeing as there is confusion about whom these graves are for, covid or not?

EDIT -

“The city digs the graves in the normal course of its work to ensure there are graves ready for interments,” Nawa said.

He denied allegations that the Honingnestkrans cemetery has been earmarked as a Covid-19 burial site for 24,000 people.

“The truth of the matter is that the city’s cemeteries across all seven regions have a capacity to accommodate 24,000 burials related to Covid-19.”


BLF has zero chill and this stunt seems extreme, but damn, the chungus are big on these okes, and maybe I am becoming numb to the headlines, but I did find this amusing. *dodges the 'howdareyou' successfully

 

[Wut]

Only meaningful if you state if the test was a private or public.

Sorry. It was a public hospital in a small town.

 

[pinball wizard]

I think most people have no clue, including the SA politicunts using it.
The eye of the storm is an area of relative calm in the middle of a hurricane.

The eye is a region of mostly calm weather at the center of strong tropical cyclones. The eye of a storm is a roughly circular area, typically 30–65 kilometers (19–40 miles) in diameter. It is surrounded by the eyewall, a ring of towering thunderstorms where the most severe weather and highest winds occur.

Yeah. I'm not that much of an idiot. I know what it means.

What the **** does it have to do with this coronchan issue?
If anything it made sense to call that hard lockdown when we prepared and fattened as the calm period, although that was more a calm before the storm. There is no eye in this storm. It's calm, then storm, then calm again after.

 

[pinball wizard]

Ask CR, I've only borrowed his expression.

Yeah, please don't if it's a moronic and meaningless thing to say...