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Covid-19: Ramaphosa assures place in history

Western Cape premier Alan Winde [said] the province’s peak was likely to be “flatter, later and longer” than previously thought. A few weeks ago he said it was going to be July but it was “hard to predict".

Without the curve already flattening there's no way to predict when the peak will be because no one knows the level of community infections. It's like trying to judge the severity of a predicted hurricane by a few drops of rain now. Epidemiologists say they don't know much about the virus so why do idiot politicians pretend they have the answers.

Winde, who's the onomatopoeiac,, eponymous windbag, couldn't predict catching the virus himself but talks about predicting something at global level.

South Africa has the tenth highest Covid-19 infections in the world and highest cases per 100 000.

Infections have been doubling every 14 days. Now 300 000, I shall reach 500 000 by month end. This is not "scaremongering", as denialists like the ever irritating PANDA say, but fact. The reason for this is simple:

Ramaphosa and government cowardly caved in to the denialists' narrative of economy before lives and the lockdown will take more lives than Covid-19, couldn't make the hard, right decision and opened before the curve flattened and with WHO's other criteria not been met.

Initially they listened to the science but now are going with quack science. Under pressure from the already lawless industry, they're allowing 100% minibus taxi capacity for short distances and 70% for long distance. Experts criticised it as without scientific foundation and it doesn't make sense. Most travel is less than 20 minutes which according to Prof. Shabir Madhi,  vaccinologist and member of government's Covid-19 advisory committee (MAC), "constitutes a close exposure. In fact, the frequency of close exposures are going to be even more common by taking short trips than taking long trips".

The economic cost of one million-plus Covid-19 infections with overwhelmed hospitals, sick, dying and dead, whatever that percentage is, shall be enormous. But this is what denialists want while themselves hiding in isolation.

But whatever the metric - first, 8th or 24th - out of 195 countries in the world SA's number is alarming and unacceptable. It's criminal of the ANC government to have squandered the opportunity to do the right thing after initially listening to the science for which they received fulsome praise. Not even poor African countries with far higher population densities and worse healthcare is in the top 20 and doing so badly.

Ramaposter like always failed to take the tough decision to keep lockdown at level 4 and follow WHO criteria for reopening. He caved in to pandemic denialists like PANDA and right wing interests that said the economy before lives. Now they have their wish. When will they take this seriously - 500 000, million or will they still pretend it's exaggerated? Ramaposter = Mbeki = ANC in negligence, denialism and forever stealing defeat from a potential victory. Theft is all its forms, not running a country, is all they know.

Good job, Ramaposter, you shall exceed Mbeki's AIDS numbers. Your place in history is assured.

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