Coronavirus - COVID-19

#786

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

I did not realise SA is catching up so fast…

We are 11th in the world overall, having overtaken Italy (a crisis hotspot in March).
We are 4th in new daily cases for the last few days, only behind the USA, India and Brazil.
We are 9th in daily deaths.
In Africa we are pretty much number 1 in all categories. I know these need to be in perspective with how much testing we are doing, I am just saying. We are catching up to the rest of the world pretty fast!

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Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories
#787

Ramaphosa better not lockdown Gauteng harder.

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#788

He is just the puppet speaking

I dont believe a word he says

#789

So worse than locking down. He banned alcohol again. :rage:

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#790

Honestly how did you not see that coming tho?

Im surprised tho at how fast he is doing it.

And the stupid curfew

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#791

Like the curfew will stop the spread. It didn’t work the first time. Its just a pathetic attempt at looking like they’re doing something.

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#792

Got any better suggestions?

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#793

The curfew is gonna mess with my job. My shift is until 22:00 at night and the curfew is 21:00. I do have a permit from when I went back during level 4, but the issue is transport. I don’t have my own so I rely on my mother and brother in law to give me lifts and I cannot let them (especially my mother) drive after curfew to come and get me. This is 100% my problem and I’m sure if I tell my boss this he will get someone else to take over my shift.

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#794

All I know is the Western Cape slowed it down, we are on a downward curve for the most part in our stats. The rest of the country would be on the same level if they just stayed honest with the testing and reporting.

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#795

I know they had a lot of held up results. Remember that?

I know that when I drive through wynberg no one is wearing a mask. I know that when we go to meetings at offices after the initial 10 minutes everyone has their masks off.

Just open the country up and allow it to run like Sweden did and stop being dictators.

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#796

I agree

This is a power trip some people are on.

#797

Its this sort of stuff that has me questioning why the lockdown. Mind you this is a Stanford professor and Nobel laureate, also he went to Pretoria boys like Elon Musk.

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#798

We have our first local case. They closed down our local checkers since someone working there has it…

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#799

Our local police station closed for the third time now - they temporarily set up shop in the church across the street :smiley:

Welcome to the party, pal!

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#800

All in all, I think we held out pretty good this side!

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#801

Yesterday afternoon when I went into the hospital there was a lady in the reception area in a wheelchair covered with blankets with a medical worker with full protective wear standing next to her and I overheard the nurse working reception tell someone “you can’t touch her, she has COVID”. At least I don’t work inside the hospital but I do have to go inside many times every day.

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#802

I really dislike this mentality. We are all human and should learn to show and be compassionate to all.

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#803

Oh i can confirm so many of the nurses/caregivers are completely ignorant and superstitious to this stuff. in at least 1 hospital here they flatly refused to go near the covid patients, despite treating TB patients for years without issue or fear…

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#804

Dude, it is a huge problem in SOuth Africa - this mentality is getting worse and I have heard of many nurses especially that refuse to go near the covid wards or patients

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#805

Downright disgusting.

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