The reason is that with the sheer volume of new cases that we are having and that we expect to continue with Omicron, one of the things we want to be careful of is that we don't have so many people out [...]

If you are asymptotic and you are infected, we want to get people back to the jobs, especially those with essential jobs

I like how they've been explaining it on the Death Panel podcast... for the last 2 years, whenever the US has had to choose between saving lives or making sure the capitalists' profits don't suffer, they choose profits. Every. Single. Time.

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Don't worry South Africa is somehow worse, no one has to quarantine after a positive test anymore. You can just do whatever

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        They basically gave up with Omnicom around Christmas, too contagious and no political will to contain it. South Africans want their Dezember and nothing will stop that lol.

        So far deaths aren't to bad, probably because 0.5% of the whole countries population has died of COVID 19 when taking excess deaths into account. (Equivalent would be 1.65 million deaths in the USA, where the death count is around 1 million when taking excess deaths into account). So everyone that was vulnerable to COVID 19 is, uhh, already dead..