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I wonder how many taxi drivers with flu were arrested during the last decade or two? Similarly how many were arrested during the H1N1 flu outbreak. In typical fashion; government is taking its policy cues from fake news channels like CNN. i.e. arrest those who are financially struggling.Taxi driver who continued working after positive test faces attempted murder charges
A taxi driver who allegedly knew he tested positive for Covid-19 but did not tell his passengers and kept on driving, is to be formally charged with attempted murder.
The office of Western Cape police commissioner Lieutenant General Yolisa Matakata said on Friday that the taxi driver had been caught in Beaufort West.
Coronavirus: Taxi driver who continued working after positive test faces attempted murder charges
A taxi driver who allegedly knew he tested positive for Covid-19 but did not tell his passengers and kept on driving, is to be formally charged with attempted murder.www.news24.com
The only purpose of stay at home was to slow down the rate of infection to allow more time to prepare the hospitals and to protect those who are most vulnerable; but let's be honest:
- the disaster the ANC created with the hospitals over the last 2 decades can't be fixed even with an extended year locked up at home, and employing Cuban doctors certainly won't change that.
- neither is it practically possible to protect all the most vulnerable; people living in squatter dwellings certainly don't have the luxury of securing granny in the cottage, or keeping her in a nice (and costly) old age home / assisted living facility.
For those pinning their hopes on an early vaccine; ask yourself these questions? Where is the vaccine...
- ...for HIV?
- ...for H1N1 (swine flu)?
- ...for SARS?
- ...for MERS?
- ...for Ebola?
- ...for Zika?
- ...for Rabies?
- etc.
This is a case of whether Africa including SA can really afford to stay shuttered when the economy was already a mess, and unemployment was a world record high before covid-19? ...because one thing you can be sure of it's going to be a far greater mess after this; and the longer it stays shuttered the greater the chance that it will never recover; similar to Zimbabwe.
Now before anybody says I'm heartless; think about this; the antibody studies have proven the mortality ratio is within the same ratio as the yearly flu, and we never shuttered for that, nor did we in 2009 shuttered for H1N1, etc. Secondly how many people died as a result of the economic tragedy in Zimbabwe compared to covid-19 -- and what would that economic tragedy mean for SA and the neighbouring countries in the same situation.
...and before you simply dismiss the notion that SA could be hot on the path to Africa's next Zimbabwe; I would suggest you look over the ANC's recent tweets and press statements about radical economic transformation, etc.
...because a non naive person would know that communists / socialists always see a tragedy as an opportunity to push their rotten ideology; an ideology that is guaranteed to fast track SA's Zimbabwe destination.
It's a guarantee that the ANC will use covid-19 to justify destroying the health care system in SA; leading to an exodus of most if not all the medical staff SA; naturally the communist ANC / EFF will say "good riddance" and say they have a solution -- the Cubans will help us out. Next will be the Reserve Bank; and exactly like Zimbabwe the lure of "free" money will entice the communists to start printing monopoly money to fund their uneconomical plans, to pay SASSA, ... -- but monopoly money as both Zimbabwe and Venezuela have proved even makes a poor substitute for toilet paper. Next will be nationalising everything, because communists don't like things they don't control like a crashing stock exchange, financial ratings, etc.
How I get from the arrest of a taxi driver trying to eek out a living to absolute turmoil is simple; SA has no real liberty before the law; neither do we have free speech, etc. A country with no liberty or free speech is China, Venezuela, Cuba, Zimbabwe, ... try mocking the president in those countries; or using a "naughty" word; or refuse to heed laws that undermine personal liberty... yeah it won't end well in either. Now try the same in SA; the taxi driver just proved liberty is SA is a farce.
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