When it comes to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Covid-19 updates, one industry is always more nervous than most.
prudently went against the advice of the government’s scientific advisers, acknowledging the need to protect livelihoods, the economy and lives. Had the president fully heeded the scientific advice, he would probably have freed up more beds. A telling statistic came during the second wave late in 2020, when Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg went through a New Year which is among the sectors that helped the economy record above-expected economic growth in the first quarter — would have been choked off and the livelihoods of tens of thousands would have been destroyed in an economy with unemployment at record levels.
Of course, there’s a good chance we would not be here had the government moved faster in securing vaccines, and, once we did, rolled out the programme as fast as our emerging market peers have done, at the very least. Less than 2-million people have been fully or partially inoculated, far from reaching the herd immunity target forecast for the first quarter of 2021.
It shoudnt be closed at all. 450 days later and hospitals are still not ready ? Give us a break. Vote the Fuckers Out.