South African Covid-19 News and Discussions

[Dryden]

Thank you. I couldn't find the correct spelling. You should have seen my first attempt. This one didn't get a red line

I'm not ashamed to admit that I only figured out how to spell the word queue when I was well into my thirties.

 

[konfab]

Why are we allowed to jog in the streets but not beaches?
Other countries has made it for gatherings but fitness is allowed. If you do it with two people.

It is really stupid.

If they really wanted to clear people off the beach, they would just state that going into the water or sitting down is not allowed. Running in a big open area with fresh air is less risk than going to a shopping centre.

 

[Unhappy438]

It is really stupid.

If they really wanted to clear people off the beach, they would just state that going into the water or sitting down is not allowed. Running in a big open area with fresh air is less risk than going to a shopping centre.

Yeah but then that requires very specific policing, easier to police it this way.

 

[Polymathic]

I almost sneezed in checkers today.

Now I know what it must feel like to be a terrorist with a conscience.

A held back the urge to fake a coughing fit several times today at the local, I was in a perfect positions to make people leave skid marks today

 

[RedViking]

I'm not ashamed to admit that I only figured out how to spell the word queue when I was well into my thirties.

I only learned to (trying) spell due to this forum and its grammar Nazi's.

The worse one was 'alot'.

But all those words like queue or qoute.... I can't get right. Not even my stupid spell checker. Wish SwiftKey got its predictions from Google.

 

[braailekker11]

We can thank people like this who cause those kinda rules to happen

East London Covid-19 'patient zero' breaks quarantine

The Eastern Cape government is scrambling to quarantine the province's Covid-19 patient zero, who has been roaming around East London in defiance of the state's containment measures.

www.timeslive.co.za

Lock this bitch up! Throw the ****ing book at this worthless piece of bat ****.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

What is?

Using the army. The army is hopeless under-trained etc. Are they going to panic and shoot people by mistake? Are they going to patrol the townships? Then be prepared to be met with heavy resistance.

 

[MEIOT]

I only learned to (trying) spell due to this forum and its grammar Nazi's.

The worse one was 'alot'.

But all those words like queue or qoute.... I can't get right. Not even my stupid spell checker. Wish SwiftKey got its predictions from Google.

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[Neoprod]

I'm not ashamed to admit that I only figured out how to spell the word queue when I was well into my thirties.

This guy was waiting in lines till he was 30 and now he's all fancy...queueing while eating a croissant.

 

[konfab]

Yeah but then that requires very specific policing, easier to police it this way.

Not really.

 

[Milano]

Has anyone viewed anything listing specific SANDF units being deployed to each province?

 

[Creag]

Ford to halt production in SA and India

On coronavirus impact.

www.moneyweb.co.za

 

[daveza]

The beaches are closed.

We can rant and rave, they will still be closed.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1242105496674488327

 

[Milano]

Mmmmm..

Who is not calm? And why should that idea make us less than calm?

What is normal support of the government vs deployment?

 

[gottagoon]

I wonder what time Cyril is gonna speak?

 

[konfab]

Yeah but then that requires very specific policing, easier to police it this way.

No it isn't.

They already have patrols with quad bikes that go up and down the beach. So they can literally just drive up to people who sit down and tell them to get moving. That mitigates all of the risk, as the vast majority of people are too fat/lazy to run anyway.

Lots of people use the beach route to walk to work for example. How is the glorious state of the People's Republik of Azania going to determine who is and who isn't allowed to walk on /next to the beach?

 

[konfab]

Using the army. The army is hopeless under-trained etc. Are they going to panic and shoot people by mistake? Are they going to patrol the townships? Then be prepared to be met with heavy resistance.

Here is the best part.
The army will then be exposed to the general populace, then go back to their nice cramped barracks.

The resources that the morons in government are going to be spending on this can be spent finding all the people at risk in the country and cocooning them.

 

[Milano]

I wonder what time Cyril is gonna speak?

Definately not at the scheduled time of 7 pm, I guess we know that much.

 

[3Gee]

As Received


South African army officially preparing for coronavirus deployment: report

Bloomberg23 March 2020



South Africa’s army is readying troops to help the police curb the spread of coronavirus, one of a series of measures President Cyril Ramaphosa is considering to deal with the outbreak.

A week after he declared a state of national disaster, the number of cases of the disease has more than quadrupled to 274 in South Africa. Ramaphosa will address the nation later on Monday, a day after meeting business leaders and members of the National Command Council that’s coordinating the response to the illness.

A South African Army Infantry Formation warning order seen by Bloomberg calls for the deployment of two sub-units of a batallion in Gauteng, the nation’s economic heartland.

One sub-unit is to be posted to each of South Africa’s remaining eight provinces, according to the order dated 22 March and signed by Brigadier-General Bayanda Mkula.

“This conceptually entails supporting other government departments in terms of disaster relief, humanitarian assistance and crisis response,” it said. All leave has been canceled while the order is in force, which will be at least 21 days and as long as three months, it said.

The army will give assistance to the police and the forces are encouraged to execute tasks, such as searches and cordons, in concert.

Defense Ministry spokesman Siphiwe Dlamini said he couldn’t immediately comment as he was in a meeting.

Read: Army will enforce coronavirus restrictions in South Africa if things get worse: health minister