South African Covid-19 News and Discussions 3

ToxicBunny

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Lupus said:
They had to all be called back last week Sunday.
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Yeah I know... The mind actually boggles still.

We've fscked the country... But it's OK, we'll go on leave anyway just cos like it's all good.
 
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We're fvked now, my prediction is they follow the UK and shut everything down. I predict full on level 5. I have enough cigs and booze, but tomorrow morning I am panic buying a haircut.
 
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heartbroken said:
We're fvked now, my prediction is they follow the UK and shut everything down. I predict full on level 5. I have enough cigs and booze, but tomorrow morning I am panic buying a haircut.
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Why would we follow the UK? We've not followed any other country.
 
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The_Right_Honourable_Brit said:
It's a big thing on Twitter for some reason. Complete bollocks of course - Cyril didn't implement a national lockdown in November like Boris did.
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Nope, we didn't go for a tiered system like theirs either, we also stopped smokes and drinks, whereas they didn't.
 
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Not familiar with schools reopening, but my bet is LD will be about schools...
Cigarettes are easy target for the NDZ mafia, but hoping the rest of the NCCC should block her.
No business closure , no more UIF funds left for that.
Restaurants and gyms might suffer.
 
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Brieuse said:
we only stopped smokes and drinks in the leafy suburbs
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I don't know about drinks, but definitely not cigarettes. All manner of sources sprung up in those leafy suburbs. People who had never before bought anything on the black market were making contacts in various places and securing themselves a steady supply. Quite funny to watch some really straight and narrow types doing it.

Brieuse said:
Not sure why they spend so much time on creating restrictions, firstly, some of the restrictions are confusing, secondly nobody is following them.
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Plenty of people have and continue to follow them as much as is reasonable. Where are the bulk of the new infections though? Middle class suburbs or somewhere else?

Brieuse said:
No Social Gatherings allowed for two weeks for example, but then further down gatherings at restaurants restricted to 50 people. Contradictory and confusing.
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I would interpret that as meaning private social gatherings, i.e. in your home, are not allowed. There was some argument, weak as it may be, that a business can implement mitigating measures. The maximum of 50 is thoroughly stupid however. It's that sort of silliness that annoys a lot of people. Along with idiocy like being harassed for not wearing a mask when walking down the street (even one that is otherwise empty).
 
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Pushing hard to ban cigarettes Govt is. I'm guessing health minister and cronies still have lots of illegal stock to sell that they didn't get rid of in March. Or they've obtained more and wanna push prices even higher now they know how far people will go. I can see Dlamini ticking off the stock going into the unmarked vans already :ROFL:
 
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neoprema said:
Pushing hard to ban cigarettes Govt is. I'm guessing health minister and cronies still have lots of illegal stock to sell that they didn't get rid of in March. Or they've obtained more and wanna push prices even higher now they know how far people will go. I can see Dlamini ticking off the stock going into the unmarked vans already :ROFL:
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She's not been the health minister for 20 years. She's the minister of Culture something or other
 
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The_Right_Honourable_Brit said:
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UK press. Overall, she captures the mood well.
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One of the scientists who developed the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine, Prof. John Bell of Oxford University, has also expressed concern over the South African variant, saying that the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine may not be effective against it.

As for that saying that Afrikaners supposedly often like to say, I've never even heard it before.
 
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