Lockdown diaries - COVID-19 matters!

As we speak, we don’t have a single immunized patient in ICU. On the other hand, We had a 2 siblings aged 16 and 18, admitted last week and transferred to ICU. They both didn’t make it we also had a mother and her daughter both pass in the same week.
I’m seeing tragedies unfold on weekly basis and many people still wondering whether they should take the jab… We are the only species actively involved in its own extinction.

Grand Guru said:

As we speak, we don’t have a single immunized patient in ICU. On the other hand, We had a 2 siblings aged 16 and 18, admitted last week and transferred to ICU. They both didn’t make it we also had a mother and her daughter both pass in the same week.
I’m seeing tragedies unfold on weekly basis and many people still wondering whether they should take the jab… We are the only species actively involved in its own extinction.

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I've been following the various news agencies on social media, in particular the comments on the articles. I don't think there is another country in the world with this level of vaccine-hesitancy (I would call it something else).

So many want to wait to see if there are negative long-term side effects. They sound like anti-vapers. Just hope for their sake it's not too late.

Adephi said:

vaccine-hesitancy

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Unequalled stupidity?

Paul33 said:

Unequalled stupidity?

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Something in that line. But I would rather stay in the rules. Don't feel like visiting the apology thread later again.

https://ewn.co.za/2021/08/16/anyone-18-years-and-older-might-be-able-to-get-covid-jab-from-this-week

JOHANNESBURG - People between the ages of 18 and 34 might be able to get their COVID-19 vaccines sooner than planned.
As things stand, those in the 18 to 34 cohort have to wait until 1 September before they can get a jab.
However, Health Minister Joe Phaahla said they were speaking to Cabinet in a bid to open up the COVID-19 vaccine sites for all adults as early as this week.

Grand Guru said:

As we speak, we don’t have a single immunized patient in ICU. On the other hand, We had a 2 siblings aged 16 and 18, admitted last week and transferred to ICU. They both didn’t make it we also had a mother and her daughter both pass in the same week.
I’m seeing tragedies unfold on weekly basis and many people still wondering whether they should take the jab… We are the only species actively involved in its own extinction.

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I spoke to a client this morning who has lost 15 friends and family to the virus and he STILL refuses to get the jab. He said that’s his opinion. Which I told him is wrong but he’s still entitled to it.

Someone relabelled the hand sanitiser.

Grand Guru said:

As we speak, we don’t have a single immunized patient in ICU. On the other hand, We had a 2 siblings aged 16 and 18, admitted last week and transferred to ICU. They both didn’t make it we also had a mother and her daughter both pass in the same week.
I’m seeing tragedies unfold on weekly basis and many people still wondering whether they should take the jab… We are the only species actively involved in its own extinction.

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An estimated 220,000 people may have died from Covid-19 in South Africa, statistics suggest, but as of Tuesday the official death toll – from confirmed coronavirus infections that ended in death – is 77,440.

That now makes Covid-19 both a bigger killer than South Africa's two most deadly diseases, and more deadly than every non-natural cause of death combined.
Annualise officially recorded Covid-19 deaths, and the count comes to some 54,000, above the total of non-natural deaths recorded in 2018, the most recent year for which a detailed breakdown of causes of death is available. Those non-natural deaths include the nearly catch-all category of "accidental injury", as well as death by assault, or from medical complications.
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The irony is that people think the vaccine is part of some culling plan by the EVIL AXIS OF POWER! Yet the disease is the tool trimming the hedges.

Grand Guru said:

As we speak, we don’t have a single immunized patient in ICU. On the other hand, We had a 2 siblings aged 16 and 18, admitted last week and transferred to ICU. They both didn’t make it we also had a mother and her daughter both pass in the same week.
I’m seeing tragedies unfold on weekly basis and many people still wondering whether they should take the jab… We are the only species actively involved in its own extinction.

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I read this and my heart breaks. As you get older you accept the natural deaths and even the ones to cancer. The above would shatter me.

Not sure if we will be able to do 3rd shots after 8 months. But its good to know the science behind it. Obviously still more studies is being done. And they are expecting news about a J&J booster of some sorts in the next few weeks.

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/confused-about-the-3rd-dose-me-too?justPublished=true

Today the White House COVID19 Task Force announced their support of a 3rd dose for the mRNA series among the general public. Starting September 20 (and assuming that the FDA and CDC agree), people can get their third dose 8 months after their second dose.

Adephi said:

Not sure if we will be able to do 3rd shots after 8 months. But its good to know the science behind it. Obviously still more studies is being done. And they are expecting news about a J&J booster of some sorts in the next few weeks.

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/confused-about-the-3rd-dose-me-too?justPublished=true

Today the White House COVID19 Task Force announced their support of a 3rd dose for the mRNA series among the general public. Starting September 20 (and assuming that the FDA and CDC agree), people can get their third dose 8 months after their second dose.

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If the vaccine uptake stays on this trend, we will be offered a third shot much earlier. People do not seem to be very interested. It’s depressing….

Grand Guru said:

If the vaccine uptake stays on this trend, we will be offered a third shot much earlier. People do not seem to be very interested. It’s depressing….

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It’s insane. I get so jealous watching the football and all the people in the stadiums with no masks and carrying right along. We want the same thing here but people are scared of the jab because of the crap al over social media.

What gets me is that we have a percentage of our population that is uneducated, but the educated are the ones fueling the anti vax movement with a knock on effect to the masses further perpetuated by tribalism and religion.

Madness !!!

Stranger said:

What gets me is that we have a percentage of our population that is uneducated, but the educated are the ones fueling the anti vax movement with a knock on effect to the masses further perpetuated by tribalism and religion.

Madness !!!

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Formal education is only a smart part of intelligence. I know a lot of DMFs who have degrees, a mates wife once told me I was wrong about someone being able to become water intoxicated, she later at least apologized when a professor brought it up in a lecture . Even during this pandemic there are "health professionals" pushing hygiene theory, which at its core suggests that kids need to be exposed to certain microbes in order to avoid auto-immune issues (which in itself hasn't been 100% proven), expanding it in to this idea that your (adult) body needs to be exposed to germs in order to keep your immune system in fit working order.

"Homo homini lupus est"

Ausweis bitte:

Stranger said:

What gets me is that we have a percentage of our population that is uneducated, but the educated are the ones fueling the anti vax movement with a knock on effect to the masses further perpetuated by tribalism and religion.

Madness !!!

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Arrest them all.

Great news. Vaccination open for the older than 18 from Friday!
https://www.news24.com/news24/south...vid-19-in-south-africa-and-the-world-20200312

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Found that chart I was looking for
I did see something like this a while ago, but couldnt remember

This is new cases for Gauteng:

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So GAUTENG is sitting on about 3,600 new cases currently. This chart goes to 29 July 2021.
When it gets below 1,000 (where it was before the 3rd wave started in early May) then I will probably feel more comfortable.

Website is here:
https://www.covid19sa.org/provincial-breakdown

I downloaded the data and made a zoomed in chart of the 3rd wave :

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update : 3rd wave Gauteng - new cases

I posted the above quoted post on 31 July

it’s now 18 days later and the 3rd wave in Gauteng seems to have continued declining. We now comfortably below the 2,500 new cases per day. Haven’t had a chance to download data and make an enlarged chart




this was the old chart I posted just for comparison

Stranger said:

What gets me is that we have a percentage of our population that is uneducated, but the educated are the ones fueling the anti vax movement with a knock on effect to the masses further perpetuated by tribalism and religion.

Madness !!!

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Don't get me started...

I'm so looking forward to Dr Susan Vosloo's HPCSA hearing. She has to provide valid scientific proof of her facts or it's a top career thrown away for a f'n video.

Silver said:

update : 3rd wave Gauteng - new cases

I posted the above quoted post on 31 July

it’s now 18 days later and the 3rd wave in Gauteng seems to have continued declining. We now comfortably below the 2,500 new cases per day. Haven’t had a chance to download data and make an enlarged chart

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this was the old chart I posted just for comparison

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Gauteng has definitely gone down. And that's a good thing.

But Western Cape and KZN has been steadily rising. Interstingly they're numbers are not growing exponentially but more a gradual climb. And the Cape has got a big aunty-vax movement. So will see in the next few weeks what happens there.