Agreed.
I see that the OG Dutchmen’s PM is also having a “family meeting” tonight. Folks there are expecting a serious return to hard lockdown regulations all the way through Christmas and New Year to mid-January 
How far behind Europe are we in terms of another wave of infections? 1000+ Matric Rage connected infections just in Gauteng. Cereal asked us so nicely to behave last time he chatted to us. I think he might be a little grumpy with the family now.
To be honest I have no idea what the numbers are currently outside the Cape. I just wish people would be more responsible. But then again from a client at one of the vape shops who works at a hospital:
Only reason we seeing spikes is cause more people are testing, there was a time when only older people or people with symptoms could test due to stock of the tests being low but now anybody can go test and more people are showing positive, with or without any symptoms.
And our Premier:
https://coronavirus.westerncape.gov.za/news/covid-19-not-holiday-we-all-must-take-extra-precautions
Not great, trending up, lots of new cases (7999) yesterday which bears out what your client told you.
If that was the case, we’d see lower positivity rates in the data, which we’re not. Positivity is at roughly 20% right now, while it peaked at 29% when our infection rate was at its worst.
There could be a change to the curfew times.
Am I the only one who HATES the “family meeting BS”
It started out as a joke on twitter I thought. He seems to have taken it to heart.
We have figured out where the people in the office next door got exposed.
Their gym /. . .
A third out of 8 people is now positive - 2 weeks almost later after the first one got sick.
The three that got sick are all part of the same gym and even though they haven’t been back yet it is the only other place/persons they have in common
My dad has had a few people in his offices that have contracted the virus, and today there was one person confirmed to have died as a result. Now he says to me he’s feeling symptomatic…
Our marketing manager here from Gordon’s Bay area has tested positive and has terrible symptoms. He went to hospital and they declined to admit him, due to the hospital being too full of COVID cases already. The response was that you should quite literally be on your death bed before they decide to admit you to hospital during this “second wave”.
We’ve decided to put our little going away holiday on hold for a couple of months and rather stay at home between Christmas and New Years. The risk of exposing ourselves to the virus is too high and we’ve been through this terrible RSV now for 2 months as well.
I hope your dad feels better soon, @Beo! That is terrible news about his coworker. I hope that whatever your dad has is mild.
@FarligOpptreden: That is hectic news. Thanks for sharing it. I hope your coworker feels better soon. It makes me angry to hear the hospitals are full to the brim, but Western Cape politicians are fighting to reopen the Garden Route beaches. What about all those field hospitals the Western Cape government keeps talking about?
Just heard on the radio this morning that there is a new strain/string of the virus that has a higher infection rate, albeit, no more severe or dangerous.
Yes, I’ve been following some conversations of health care workers and researchers on Twitter.
The new variant (not a strain, per se) is potentially more dangerous in the sense that it apparently hits younger people harder and causes severe symptoms even in people without comorbidities.
This whole thread was informative:
Thank you, very informative indeed.
Baie Dankie! This is how it was explained to me as well, just not as good, this makes sense, and it has managed to reduce my stress.
What covid test is now being done by a finger prick? My sister in law got that last week since she came down with the flu (She tested negative according to this test = results was in 20mins)
That test is an antibody test, not a current covid test. Unless something has changed in the last week.
Excuse my ignorance, but looking on Google I see this.
Am I right to assume that is the amount of infections recorded daily? (An increase in 9445 cases in one day)
Or is this a cumulative amount that either grows or shrinks on a daily basis?
That’s right, active cases are in the order of 100K at the moment.
Couple more granular graphs here:
South Africa Coronavirus: 921,922 Cases and 24,691 Deaths - Worldometer (worldometers.info)
Second one shows Cases per Day, with 3- and 7-day moving averages, and a little further down, Daily Deaths, which I think are fairly insightful:
Both are heading towards our July-August highs sadly. We’ll hit 1-million total cases by (or close to) year end I think.
