JUSTICE MALALA | The poor, the working-class people who have to get in a taxi every day, will contract the coronavirus.
In a minibus taxi there is no social distancing. At its worst, there are four of you packed in one row of seats, making up 15 or 16 people per load. Under lockdown regulations that are hardly being adhered to, there are two of you per row. Even then, you are less than a metre apart. You are touching surfaces that have been touched by hundreds of others. There are no sanitisers in many taxi ranks or in taxis.
The poor, the working-class people who have to get in a taxi every day, will contract the coronavirus.Many will get sick. Many will die. The rich will work remotely, will bolt to their remote holiday homes or farms, while the economy"opens up" for the working classes - who have to use a minibus taxi to get to a factory or mine or hospital or petrol station or to pick up our rubbish.So let us be humble in this"debate".
We want a straight line, a"solution" such as the word from on high that we can"open up the economy", but life isn't like that. It is a winding road, full of twists and turns. We want heroes and villains, but there are villains on the side of the good, and good guys among the villains. We say those who want easing are white, when the truth is that there are many whites who want the lockdown to continue.
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