Editorial | This is now a national disaster: This repeated extension shows that the blunt instruments that our government so favours are out of sync with science and logic
? To afford organs of state enough time to “continue augmenting the existing legislation and contingency arrangements” to ensure the continued management of Covid-19.
Opposition parties believe this is an attempt to put in place permanent measures that include a lockdown. A major problem here is government’s failure to communicate its real intentions. The extension of the regulations comes across as a government exercising its powers because it can.For two years, government has extended these regulations every month and it appears stuck in the chains of habit.
“To pretend that you are trying to prevent infections when we have not succeeded in doing so demonstrates that there is no clear goal by the national coronavirus command council and by government in terms of understanding what it wants to accomplish,” Madhi said.Covid-19 experts slam state of disaster extension as government ‘incapacity to understand what it is trying to achieve’
South Africans have to learn to live with this virus and vaccinate to prevent severe disease, hospitalisation and death. According to the health department’s latest vaccine statistics, as of March 16, 48.32% of South Africa’s adult population had received a vaccine, while only 43.42% are fully vaccinated. The vaccination campaign has to continue and the goal to vaccinate 70% of the population must not be abandoned.
The most obvious examples of the impact of these regulations is in sports, where other countries have opened up activity and found ways of mitigating risk. This shows that the blunt instruments that our government so favours are out of sync with science and logic. This repeated extension is itself now a national disaster.
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