South African Covid-19 News and Discussions

[Paulsie]

Squirrel definitely said cigs can then be bought. Just confusion.

Are you sure Signore Cele is not going to overrule him!!!???

 

[Lupus]

It's her old speech , from last week? with 50% mining . The articles that follow are older

oh thanks

 

[Brian_G]

Are you sure Signore Cele is not going to overrule him!!!???

Not impossible that he might try, to do his own thing anyway :-/

(But see the post I made next, about the title.)

 

[daveza]

CR's speech yesterday -

The sale of cigarettes will be permitted.

No one is going to walk that back.

 

[rustypup]

no-one knew where the virus was going to go
<..>
because there are far more asymptomatics than previously thought.

Unfettered BS.

We had all the data in the world on the Coronavirus family. We have known for more than 50 years that the vast bulk of infections are asymptomatic.

We knew in the first two weeks what the risk cohorts were shaping out to be.

We chose to buy in to the media hype and react accordingly for political reasons. Not rational, responsible ones.

 

[RedViking]

Unfettered BS.

We had all the data in the world on the Coronavirus family. We have known for more than 50 years that the vast bulk of infections are asymptomatic.

We knew in the first two weeks what the risk cohorts were shaping out to be.

We chose to buy in to the media hype and react accordingly for political reasons. Not rational, responsible ones.

Say that to New York , Madrid , Lombardia, Mulhouse, Colmar , North Rhine-Westphalia, Wuhan........

 

[Brian_G]

Why is it so important for someone to be right, let's just learn from it and move on.

 

[RedViking]

Why is it so important for someone to be right, let's just learn from it and move on.

Because you don't let a Facebook Diploma go to waste.

 

[Brian_G]

Because you don't let a Facebook Diploma go to waste.

Yeah, forgot what a character he is, he had a huge go at me before. Cheats as well.

 

[pouroverguy]

Unfettered BS.

We had all the data in the world on the Coronavirus family. We have known for more than 50 years that the vast bulk of infections are asymptomatic.

We knew in the first two weeks what the risk cohorts were shaping out to be.

We chose to buy in to the media hype and react accordingly for political reasons. Not rational, responsible ones.

Thank God our president didn't think like this. We'd have lost thousands more people by now.

 

[Unhappy438]

Unfettered BS.

We had all the data in the world on the Coronavirus family. We have known for more than 50 years that the vast bulk of infections are asymptomatic.

We knew in the first two weeks what the risk cohorts were shaping out to be.

We chose to buy in to the media hype and react accordingly for political reasons. Not rational, responsible ones.

You don't assume Covid-19 works the same.

 

[Gordon_R]

Say that to New York , Madrid , Lombardia, Mulhouse, Colmar , North Rhine-Westphalia, Wuhan........

Those regions demographics, interventions and time-frame were completely different from SA. I will keep re-posting this chart until the foolish comparisons stop:

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1253714077102354433

Nice. The only country with over 100 000 cases that never veered out of control (also the only nation with over 100 000 recoveries as of today. A truely remarkable achievement).

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

 

[rustypup]

Say that to New York , Madrid , Lombardia, Mulhouse, Colmar , North Rhine-Westphalia, Wuhan........

I'll take places with a significant older population for $50 please, Alex.

Context is everything but let's ignore that in favour of ignorance.

 

[rustypup]

Thank God our president didn't think like this. We'd have lost thousands more people by now.

Pro-tip. Still going to lose thousands.

Only now we're having to beg/borrow/steal the funds to treat them because, again, ignorance is a super-power in Africa.

 

[RedViking]

I'll take places with a significant older population for $50 please, Alex.

Context is everything but let's ignore that in favour of ignorance.

Do you have a degree or diploma in the medical industry or something close to it?

 

[rustypup]

You don't assume Covid-19 works the same.

What. You mean SARS-CoV-2? You're right. We knew absolutely nothing. At all.

 

[rustypup]

Do you have a degree or diploma in the medical industry or something close to it?

I find viruses fascinating and always have. I absorb the studies, histories and insights from the plethora of information available, thereby developing a healthy sense of what BS looks like in the context of an epidemic.

What's you cunning system?

 

[AirWolf]

Do you have a degree or diploma in the medical industry or something close to it?

I find viruses fascinating and always have. I absorb the studies, histories and insights from the plethora of information available, thereby developing a healthy sense of what BS looks like in the context of an epidemic.

What's you cunning system?

TLDR = No.