New decisions must be made from a position of knowledge and fact and not fought from political corners
Quiet roads in an industrial area in Johannesburg during the Covid-19 lockdown. Picture: DENIS DROPPA
Because the DA has from the start called for a softer lockdown, the argument to open the economy has been categorised as a DA position; while supporters of President Cyril Ramaphosa, anxious to defend him, have prompted many in the ANC to champion the hard lockdown. For a time, it looked as if the tracking and tracing approach was effective. In the first two weeks of the lockdown, case numbers fell. But so did the number of tests being done, making it hard to determine exactly how successful the strategy was. This debate is no longer important. What matters now is whether tracking and tracing is still working and still containing the epidemic.There is growing consensus among epidemiologists, including government advisers, that it is not.
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