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RE: National state of disaster officially declared in South Africa - restrictions imposed due to CoronaVirus

in #steemsa5 years ago

60 cases now locally, the next 2 weeks will be make or break for South Africa that's for sure! Can't believe its almost at 200k worldwide and thats only confirmed numbers so its easily a quater million by now

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Hey @chekohler,

Well... the number of new cases in China and South Korea are already on the decrease... so hopefully it's not all doom & gloom as most of the media will have us believe. ... I really hope this guy (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3800632,00.html) is onto something.
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Are his numbers right? (<20% will/can actually get it? that part sounds dodge to me), or is it the result of countries taking action that's limited the spread?

Either way: Here in South Africa we're only just getting started, and it's gonna get a lot worse before it can starts getting. The "No gatherings of 100 or more people" has pretty much left me jobless for the next month or 3 (2/3rds of my events have already cancelled, and expecting the rest to do so in the next day or two)... so I'm definitely hoping for a speedy (positive) outcome.

FWIW: The folks that are panic buying are probably causing an even bigger problem... all this unnecessary gathering in large groups in shopping centres and fondling/fighting each other... The photos circulating social media today are just insane. If they didn't have corona virus before their shopping (aka mass gatherings), they probably do now :-( Ai Ai Ai.

Well... Like you say... The next 2 weeks will be make or break for us.
#HoldingThumbs.

Yeah I agree man, even though I work on the internet, a large percentage of south africans do their internet browsing at work on the jobs time so we're seeing a steady decline in website visits and eCommerce sales as well. People just buying essentials and preparing.

I hope its resolved soon, we can scarce afford to have another drama with the eskomplications we already having.

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