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daveza said:
None of this makes sense to me.

1st world countries with lower cases but many times the deaths.

And if we are not testing as much and actually have many more cases than the reported figure then our low death numbers make even less sense.

Ps: Murica going to hit 4 million cases later today.

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Theres 1, maybe 2 mybb members that is most probably going to come and kak on you soon and how they have explained this a 100 times in this thread before.
 
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daveza said:
None of this makes sense to me.

1st world countries with lower cases but many times the deaths.

And if we are not testing as much and actually have many more cases than the reported figure then our low death numbers make even less sense.

Ps: Murica going to hit 4 million cases later today.

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During the early stages of the epidemic in SA, that ratio of tests to deaths was much higher than most other countries. That has now changed, and the number of tests is not keeping up with the number of new infections. The deaths follow with a considerable lag, so the numbers will catch in a month or two.
 
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daveza said:
None of this makes sense to me.

1st world countries with lower cases but many times the deaths.

And if we are not testing as much and actually have many more cases than the reported figure then our low death numbers make even less sense.

Ps: Murica going to hit 4 million cases later today.

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If we control for age then SA should have around 1/4th of the UK deaths. That puts us at around 10k total deaths.

I suspect that the virus got less deadly. SA is on par with California, Texas and Florida.


Also a lot of people in Europe that died due to Covid did so because of bad ventilator practice. Once they only gave people oxygen then the death rate plummeted.


That being said, I don’t trust the ANC with any of this.
 
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daveza said:
None of this makes sense to me.

1st world countries with lower cases but many times the deaths.

And if we are not testing as much and actually have many more cases than the reported figure then our low death numbers make even less sense.

Ps: Murica going to hit 4 million cases later today.

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As stated before, it is probably their boomer populations.
 
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LCBXX said:
Has this ever happened in this country? If yes, what was the cause?
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Laingsburg was another example. Nearby mortuaries were overwhelmed and that was with less than 100 bodies. The military was tasked with recovery and storage. My dad flew Alouette III recovery missions and had to stuff herbs and flowers in a mask to stand the smell. He dreaded having to remove the mask to speak on the radio. They had to fly bodies all over as each nearby hospital and mortuary became overwhelmed very quickly. Eventually, they had to store bodies in refrigerated trucks. He also believes that they eventually just dumped those bodies in a mass grave somewhere which accounts for the fact that nearly 72 bodies were never "found", but he is convinced with all the sorties they flew that the recovered way more bodies than the official count stated.
 
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www.businesslive.co.za

Eastern Cape ‘wasted’ lockdown by failing to prepare for Covid-19 peak, expert says

Prof Shabir Madhi says it is a ‘tragedy’ that there is not enough oxygen in the Eastern Cape for patients
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No, really?

The Eastern Cape government, whose public health care is in disarray and is running out of critical oxygen supply, failed to put the strict lockdown to good use and did not prepare for the Covid-19 surge it is currently experiencing, leading health expert Prof Shabir Madhi said on Tuesday.

The province’s public health care facilities are now so overwhelmed by the surge in Covid-19 cases that patients are reportedly fighting one another for the meagre supply of oxygen.

The province has the third-highest number of coronavirus cases in the country. On Tuesday it confirmed its medical oxygen reserves were strained and that it was in talks with suppliers to rectify the dire situation.

SA went into the lockdown — one of the strictest in the world — at the end of March when the country's Covid-19 infection rate was still low. The reason for this was to slow the spread of the virus to allow the public health care system to mitigate against the spread of the virus.

“What this means is that they didn’t achieve much [in terms of preparing for the peak]. It’s a wasted opportunity,” said Madhi, a infectious disease specialist and member of the ministerial advisory committee on health.
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MiW said:
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Gauteng govt launches new app to fight Covid-19 in the taxi industry | News24

Gauteng's Department of Transport has launched a new mobile app that will monitor and prevent the spread of Covid-19 in taxis and at taxi ranks.
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First, congratulations to the SA government for creating the smartest AI in the world!


But who is paying for all that? Covid funds? This is the most ridiculous idea.

Obviously the 'marshals' will be getting cash from both sides :-/
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Good initiative from the Gauteng government.
 
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daveza said:
None of this makes sense to me.

1st world countries with lower cases but many times the deaths.

And if we are not testing as much and actually have many more cases than the reported figure then our low death numbers make even less sense.

Ps: Murica going to hit 4 million cases later today.

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SA Covid related death stats is likely BS.
 
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The world is being tested on a short snippet of the genetic material of RNA. The full genome, which nobody has isolated, is between 30 000 and 40 000 basis long. The full genome is only been pieced together using computer models.

So really no one actually even knows WTF a positive test actually means. Could be that it's no virus at all.

The snippets they are testing for is 200 to 300 basis long. Even the test kit leaflets themselves state that a positive test cannot be taken as a diagnosis.
 
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Paulsie said:
It would also be interesting to see how many assaults, ar accidents and pedestrian deaths occur at night (eg during curfew).
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I think one thing that increased is death caused by guns. A sober gangster is much more accurate.

Less innocent people getting caught in the crossfire too

I think the curfew helps them a bit because they can now actually see their rivals because they have to do the gunslinging during daylight hours
 
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Paulsie said:
It would also be interesting to see how many assaults, ar accidents and pedestrian deaths occur at night (eg during curfew).
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Ja the numbers don't lie, BUT the possible reason does. Is it the curfew or the Alcohol ban? or a combination.
 
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