I don’t see an issue with that, providing you’re adhering to all protocols.
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Oh ja… I was putting the little one to sleep when I remembered about the Nation Address, what are the designated hotspots in the WC area?
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My friend in the UK is convinced that the actual death rate for the UK is a lot lower than reported. He believes that if you compare the current death rate with this time last year it is about the same.
I have done a little research for SA but there is no yearly death rate that includes the last few months as yet. I then looked at the weekly death rate in 2019, could not find it anywhere.
Anyone have a better search-fu than me that knows where I can find weekly death rates for 2019?
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I mean the yearly death rate in SA has been about 9-9.4 per 1000 for a few years. I would love to see what it is this year to see if it supports his theory.
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There were an additional 60 000 deaths over and above the average this year. It is suspected that a great deal of them may have been unreported cases of Covid.
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I’ve looked for previous years as well but cant find a similar chart.
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NOTE: All 2020 and later data are UN projections and DO NOT include any impacts of the COVID-19 virus.
Big note on that site
https://www.samrc.ac.za/reports/report-weekly-deaths-south-africa
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Which is why I want a 2019 chart handy when the final 2020 chart is out.
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I totally misread your previous post, apologies.
But the orange band on the graph I posted is calculated using 2018 and 2019 data. Two years are used to determine annual inflation, and that factor then appropriately applied to 2019 data to get the orange band. Does that help you?
I’ll continue looking for the actual data, but it means reading through a proper report that the SAMRC team wrote, and I’m not sure my concentration will hold up in this heat! 
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Yeah, thanks for the info you have given me, please don’t fry your brain. Mine is almost gone in this 40c heat.
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Slightly off-topic, but directly related to the tighter curfew restrictions and booze sales ban:
For the first time in its history, the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto says it has had NO trauma case patients coming through its doors on 1 January.
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It certainly validates the decision. People bemoan the heavy handedness of the booze bans - but they wouldn’t be necessary if people knew how to drink responsibly.
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Got back to work this morning, and had to go for a quick brain-tickle-test because I had been in Gauteng over the break. Never mind the fact that
a) it was 10 days ago,
b) I am asymptomatic,
c) after the test I was told to go in and work… /facepalm.
I don’t mind screening and testing, as we’ve got some 1 800 people between our four sites, with the a large proportion having gone home to KZN, but don’t test and then send people in to work, that doesn’t make any sense!
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Yeah, that makes no sense. So what is their procedure if your test comes back positive? Test everyone and send them in to work as well? 
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I dont get the logic. So many times I have heard people say I got tested waiting for the results… but if you come back positive you just infected a whole bunch of people. If you get tested stay away until you get the results this will help you and help the people around you.
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Perhaps they’re taking it as asymptomatics do not spread the virus.
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I sincerely don’t think they thought that far yet. The order to do the testing this morning only came through yesterday, as a result of a mandate (I think?) from the Minerals Council. I hope the thinking will catch up soon, and I’m holding thumbs that we didn’t let anyone that is positive actually come in to work. 
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