South African Covid-19 News and Discussions 2

[Temujin]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1289979740950949889

 

[Shi]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1290014252468768773

 

[Shi]

KZN overtakes EC, and has WC in its sights

 

[Paulsie]

If we don't start running more tests, we are running the risk loosing our hard won 5th position on the world stage to either Mexico or Colombia quote soon.

 

[MiW]

 

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How's the health system doing?

 

[RedViking]

How's the health system doing?

It says it is doing fine and it's sending its condolences.

 

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It says it is doing fine and it's sending its condolences.

Glad it hasn't collapsed yet. I'll wait 2 more weeks.

 

[RedViking]

Glad it hasn't collapsed yet. I'll wait 2 more weeks.

It says do not worry, NHI will fix it.

 

[yebocan]

Glad it hasn't collapsed yet. I'll wait 2 more weeks.

for it to collapse...? Like a revolution, it will not be televised
from what I have seen from the Eastern Cape...their system collapsed ages ago.. or rather, "die varke" - have devoured resources for their own benefit...**** the people.

 

[Paulsie]

Covid-19 lockdown prevented dramatic loss of life, Ramaphosa says as cases pass 500 000 | News24

President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country could have experienced dramatic loss of life and an uncontrolled increase in Covid-19 infections.

www.news24.com

He said after a rapid rise in infections over the past two months, the daily increase in infections appeared to be stabilising,

While it may be too soon to draw firm conclusions, this suggests that the prevention measures that South Africans have implemented are having an effect," said Ramaphosa.

Our case fatality rate - which is the number of deaths as a proportion of confirmed cases - remains at 1.6%, significantly lower than the global average. For this, we are grateful to the work of our health professionals and the innovative treatments they have pioneered

Still blowing his trumpet....

 

[Polymathic]

Glad it hasn't collapsed yet. I'll wait 2 more weeks.

You can't collapse something that's been collapsed for years

 

[MiW]

https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news...covid-19-b6957a13-631d-4ebd-a99c-8f96d4274591

“Every day doctors and nurses die and nobody is saying anything about it. In some hospitals, the interns are given one mask and are told they must use it for the whole week,” she said.

 

[pouroverguy]

https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news...covid-19-b6957a13-631d-4ebd-a99c-8f96d4274591

Even at Groote Schuur, I've been given one N95 mask to use for 7 days and seen a notice about it. Not sure if the amount of days to reuse is different for the doctors though, but I don't think so.

Head of infectious diseases at GSH:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1281038723715661825

 

[ToxicBunny]

EDITORIAL: Stealing from your own people is a crime; stealing during the pandemic is a crime against humanity

There should be a place in jail for everyone who steals from their own people. But there should be a place in Hell for those who find the fortitude within them to steal from the people during a pandemic.

www.dailymaverick.co.za

 

[ToxicBunny]

The whole bloody thing around corruption and these tenders makes my blood boil in ways it normally doesn't with the run of the mill corruption that these fscktards engage in....

 

[neoprema]

I think the corruption is a bigger impact to ZA at the moment than COVID in my view.
Yes its bad, yes people are dying. But COVID will end at some point, hopefully relatively soon.

But ZA will owe the IMF and countless other entities billions and billions of rands and we all know how they gonna recover it...

 

[ToxicBunny]

I think the corruption is a bigger impact to ZA at the moment than COVID in my view.
Yes its bad, yes people are dying. But COVID will end at some point, hopefully relatively soon.

But ZA will owe the IMF and countless other entities billions and billions of rands and we all know how they gonna recover it...

Its not really the corruption that makes my blood boil...

Its the callousness of stealing from tenders meant to actively save peoples lives and to help feed people. As the article states, there needs to be a special place in Hell for these types of people.

 

[Nanfeishen]

That's for sure

Good friend (who I used to see at least once a week) about 10 mins drive away was tested positive on 3rd June. He had a bad headache for 3 or 4 days then nothing. He was tested again on 23rd June and pronounced all clear

You should hear the hysterical shouting from other friends, even one of my daughters when I went to pick up something at his house last week. That was a month after he recovered. One of my wife's friends said I should sleep in a separate bedroom and wear a mask with a visor at home

I am told I am putting myself and people at "severe risk" and should be "more responsible:"

They have all gone mad

Yep , what do you expect , when you have this thing nowadays called social media, that keeps the fear factor ramped up, and anyone who has it is suddenly typhoid mary with death on their shoulders.
This **** show wouldnt exist without Social Media driving it.

 

[LCBXX]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1290014252468768773

Cue the "We need to beware of the second wave/Second wave in infection incoming" narrative for the Western cape.