COVID-19 in SOUTH AFRICA

[Big Nipper]

I had my flu jab in March....probably still good....

Generally I can't give a vok for any kind of chemicals in my body...including pain killers ....

Its not natural.

Its bad enough I need to take blood pressure tablets.....every vokken day of my life, with my morning coffee.
If I could find a homopathic method I would drop the pills.....

Yesterday I fainted at work and had to go to the doc....but he is cool....Stress related...I am so vokken busy at work I really don't know when we will close this year....and I am turning away work every day unless they can except it next year , which is almost full for January already. Anyway the stress of the last 2 weeks got to me and I was getting dizzy spells and then just fainted.....Doctor wanted to give me pills to relax me.....I have a herb that does the same thing but don't use at work for obvious reasons....might have to adjust that during this very busy time.

To make it worse I am very involved in the running of my wifes shop...decisions to be made , financing it and doing cash ups at night around 10 pm. so I am averaging about 5 hours sleep a night and thats not exactly a restful sleep anyway as I cant stop processing....And we normally run through things when I get home from Steel-line so there not much of a break.

I reckon stress is a far greater danger to me than any COVID....a mate of mine is half paralysed because of a sress related stroke....and he cant stand what he has become and the strain he puts on his family...and often talks about ending it....

I have made a conscious decision to not check my emails, wattsaps or answer calls from clients after 4 pm.....Tried it last night and vok its hard....but with discipline anything is possible.....

We have both , my wife and I , put stricter protocols into place for staff and clients that visit us...enforcing regular washing. Forcing the staff to wear the masks properly....sanitising .... Checking temperatures ( which we have always done )so we are busy doing our bit.

Regards a Vaccine....don't know if I will bother...prefer to get it , take my chances and build up immunity tbh....

All the best mate. You deserve it.

Wow, well done on outing your multi there

[Chilli]

To make it worse I am very involved in the running of my wifes shop...decisions to be made , financing it and doing cash ups at night around 10 pm. so I am averaging about 5 hours sleep a night and thats not exactly a restful sleep anyway as I cant stop processing.

Welcome to my life.

If we are going out for dinner then I don't eat lunch as my body is so used to only eating after 22h00. 5 hours sleep a night ............

[Sards]

To make it worse I am very involved in the running of my wifes shop...decisions to be made , financing it and doing cash ups at night around 10 pm. so I am averaging about 5 hours sleep a night and thats not exactly a restful sleep anyway as I cant stop processing.

Welcome to my life.

If we are going out for dinner then I don't eat lunch as my body is so used to only eating after 22h00. 5 hours sleep a night ............

Yoh....I am getting too old for this shit

[Big Nipper]

To make it worse I am very involved in the running of my wifes shop...decisions to be made , financing it and doing cash ups at night around 10 pm. so I am averaging about 5 hours sleep a night and thats not exactly a restful sleep anyway as I cant stop processing.

Welcome to my life.

If we are going out for dinner then I don't eat lunch as my body is so used to only eating after 22h00. 5 hours sleep a night ............

Yoh....I am getting too old for this shit

Not too old for lame multis though

[Sards]

Wtf you on about...you and Ouboet talk the same language....nonsense

[Rinkals]

I had my flu jab in March....probably still good....

Generally I can't give a vok for any kind of chemicals in my body...including pain killers ....

Its not natural.

Its bad enough I need to take blood pressure tablets.....every vokken day of my life, with my morning coffee.
If I could find a homopathic method I would drop the pills.....

Yesterday I fainted at work and had to go to the doc....but he is cool....Stress related...I am so vokken busy at work I really don't know when we will close this year....and I am turning away work every day unless they can except it next year , which is almost full for January already. Anyway the stress of the last 2 weeks got to me and I was getting dizzy spells and then just fainted.....Doctor wanted to give me pills to relax me.....I have a herb that does the same thing but don't use at work for obvious reasons....might have to adjust that during this very busy time.

To make it worse I am very involved in the running of my wifes shop...decisions to be made , financing it and doing cash ups at night around 10 pm. so I am averaging about 5 hours sleep a night and thats not exactly a restful sleep anyway as I cant stop processing....And we normally run through things when I get home from Steel-line so there not much of a break.

I reckon stress is a far greater danger to me than any COVID....a mate of mine is half paralysed because of a sress related stroke....and he cant stand what he has become and the strain he puts on his family...and often talks about ending it....

I have made a conscious decision to not check my emails, wattsaps or answer calls from clients after 4 pm.....Tried it last night and vok its hard....but with discipline anything is possible.....

We have both , my wife and I , put stricter protocols into place for staff and clients that visit us...enforcing regular washing. Forcing the staff to wear the masks properly....sanitising .... Checking temperatures ( which we have always done )so we are busy doing our bit.

Regards a Vaccine....don't know if I will bother...prefer to get it , take my chances and build up immunity tbh....

All the best mate. You deserve it.

Wow, well done on outing your multi there

Yes: that probably makes a lot more sense than my hypothesis over on the cricket thread,

[OomStruisbaai]

Locked down for PE.

Still worried about provincial locked down.

[handyman]

Locked down for PE.

Still worried about provincial locked down.

I'm quite sure they won't lock down an entire province, but yeah, the Garden Route en City of Cape Town is a worry.

[Sandstorm]

Locked down for PE.

Still worried about provincial locked down.

I'm quite sure they won't lock down an entire province, but yeah, the Garden Route en City of Cape Town is a worry.

Close them both now. Send all the infected Vaalies to Durban this Xmas.

[Sards]

Locked down for PE.

Still worried about provincial locked down.

I'm quite sure they won't lock down an entire province, but yeah, the Garden Route en City of Cape Town is a worry.

Close them both now. Send all the infected Vaalies to Durban this Xmas.

Wait for all the EFF transplants to go back to the Eastern Cape for the holidays

[Blake]

Jeez, its getting bad and quickly. Up to 8,000 new cases again. Deaths will surely follow, especially from the Eastern Cape and Garden Route where it seems some hospitals are reaching capacity.
Test positivity rate at 18% yesterday with a 7-day average of 15%, so well established community transmission.

3 co-workers tested positive this week after a work trip. 1 experiencing a pretty severe case.
Gran in hospital.

Her case is particularly annoying. She was doing a decent job fighting and beating the bugger, but it made her so weak she fell when going to the bathroom.
Possibly fractured something. Combination of Covid dehydration and pain meds for the suspected fracture did a number on her kidneys and here we are.
Hope the stubborn old lady pulls through.

Fuck 2020.

[Rinkals]

It suddenly got quite close.

My gf's bestie, who lives in Kalk Bay has tested positive. Her husband who recently had half his lung removed, lymph nodes and a tumour removed from his brain has subsequently tested positive.

We have lodgers who are a young Belgium couple who were playing frisbee at Pirates last Saturday have found out that one of their team mates has tested positive. They are asymptomatic and will go for a test tomorrow as it's 7 days after contact.

Our housekeeper's young son has been sent home and his preschool closed after one of the mothers tested positive.

Our hockey has been called off because one of the players tested positive. I didn't have any contact with him as he played the game after me, but all hockey has been cancelled.

All this without any notification on the Covid App I have installed on my 'phone, which would indicate that the App is useless because hardly anyone has installed it. Presumably they think the ANC Government is using it as some kind of mind control strategy or something.

[Blake]

All this without any notification on the Covid App I have installed on my 'phone, which would indicate that the App is useless because hardly anyone has installed it.

Probably the latter, which is disappointing. I also have it installed, but have (fortunately) started hunkering down at home again around 3 weeks ago when I started hearing rumblings from contacts that work at the hospitals that admissions were starting to spike again.

So while there has been an increase in cases among family, friends, coworkers and acquaintances, I haven't had physical contact with most of them.

Still surprised my app hasn't alerted me though, since I do go out for shopping and did travel along the garden route for a weekend getaway 2 weeks ago.
Would have expected at least 1 proximity alert.

[Rinkals]

All this without any notification on the Covid App I have installed on my 'phone, which would indicate that the App is useless because hardly anyone has installed it.

Probably the latter, which is disappointing. I also have it installed, but have (fortunately) started hunkering down at home again around 3 weeks ago when I started hearing rumblings from contacts that work at the hospitals that admissions were starting to spike again.

So while there has been an increase in cases among family, friends, coworkers and acquaintances, I haven't had physical contact with most of them.

Still surprised my app hasn't alerted me though, since I do go out for shopping and did travel along the garden route for a weekend getaway 2 weeks ago.
Would have expected at least 1 proximity alert.

I had a request from someone on PR (Nickdemos, I think) for anyone who is using the covid app to unfriend him on FB as he thinks that the app will hack into his facebook account and rat out his personal details.

I haven't done so because I can't be arsed and because it's just too silly.

[Blake]

I had a request from someone on PR (Nickdemos, I think) for anyone who is using the covid app to unfriend him on FB as he thinks that the app will hack into his facebook account and rat out his personal details.

I haven't done so because I can't be arsed and because it's just too silly.

Between people like that and the 5G, Bill Gates tracking, 666 mark of the beast anti-vaxx crowd I can't say I'm really surprised we are losing this fight against Covid and will probably still be in a similar position next year this time.

Hopefully there will be enough sane people to pull all this dead weight out of the doldrums with us so we can get back to some sense of normality.

[Big Nipper]

All this without any notification on the Covid App I have installed on my 'phone, which would indicate that the App is useless because hardly anyone has installed it.

Probably the latter, which is disappointing. I also have it installed, but have (fortunately) started hunkering down at home again around 3 weeks ago when I started hearing rumblings from contacts that work at the hospitals that admissions were starting to spike again.

So while there has been an increase in cases among family, friends, coworkers and acquaintances, I haven't had physical contact with most of them.

Still surprised my app hasn't alerted me though, since I do go out for shopping and did travel along the garden route for a weekend getaway 2 weeks ago.
Would have expected at least 1 proximity alert.

I had a request from someone on PR (Nickdemos, I think) for anyone who is using the covid app to unfriend him on FB as he thinks that the app will hack into his facebook account and rat out his personal details.

I haven't done so because I can't be arsed and because it's just too silly.

I really cannot wrap my head around how idiotic some very intelligent people are reacting to blatantly fake news. Fuck me, that is just beyond stupid

[Blake]

I really cannot wrap my head around how idiotic some very intelligent people are reacting to blatantly fake news. Fuck me, that is just beyond stupid

We are fokken doomed man. When the freaking CHIEF JUDGE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT is this stupid...you kind of realise just how futile it actually is trying to address the large, existential projects...be they fighting Covid, or Climate Change, or Poverty and Inequality.

[OomStruisbaai]

Blake sorry to hear about your Granny. The saddest of this is that you can't visit her.

[Blake]

Blake sorry to hear about your Granny. The saddest of this is that you can't visit her.

Thanks Oom.

It's worst part yes. Lost my other gran in June...not Covid related, but because of lockdown at the time traveling was quite tricky so attended the funeral virtually.
Also tough on my sister in Texas who is feeling very alone through all this.

Thank goodness for modern technology and frequent video calls.

[Blake]

Fuck 2020

[Fangle]

Fuck 2020

Completely. The worst year of my life.

Sorry to hear about your gran.

[Blake]

Fuck 2020

Completely. The worst year of my life.

Sorry to hear about your gran.

Thanks Fangle. She was a remarkable woman...born 60 years too early. My sister and I often wonder what she would have been like if she had been in her 30s today.

Always amazed me what a knack she had for technology, whatever her age. She actually did a computer course in Oudshoorn in the early 90’s, even though they never had a computer on the farm. Think they got a laptop in the mid-2000. She was intimidated by it, but after just one explanation she “got” it and took to a laptop, smartphone and tablet easier than my mom ever did.

[Blake]

@Rinkals,
For what it’s worth I got a possible Covid exposure on my App this morning...but on 12 December from proximity to person that tested positive on 2 December...so yeah, not sure to do with information like that.

Not worried though. Spent that day at home all day and just did a quick run to Makro to buy some booze to stock up since I though CT was also getting locked down like PE. Has to be where the “possible exposure” happened.

Pretty cool tech.

[Rinkals]

I suppose it's similar to vaccinations.

The App is useless if only a small minority buy into the process and download it.

Similarly, vaccination is far more effective if widely adopted.

But it's precisely the people who rail against government interference, who insist that covid is harmless to healthy people and the death statistics are overstated by doctors driven to include it on a death certificate at all costs in order to keep us all at home and in lockdown who are a barrier against any return to normalcy by resisting their adoption.

[Rinkals]

I'm back in Jo'burg for a couple of weeks before returning to Nottingham Road (covid and possible adoption of level 5 notwithstanding) and there has been a sharp spike in infections after the Ballito Rage.

Listening to these kids expressing no remorse and claiming that, as healthy young adults, they are unlikely to be threatened by it and it's their life, anyway, one can feel the irritation at their poor grasp of logic.

[OomStruisbaai]

Look like we hit a second wave.

Hoping this closing of beaches is a heap of kak.

[Blake]

Look like we hit a second wave.

Hoping this closing of beaches is a heap of kak.

Going to have to Oom. Those busses of beachgoers that swarm to the beaches on 16, 26 Dec and 1 Jan are a Covid Timebomb.

It’s a sacrifice we are all going to have to make to defuse it.

[Chilli]

Even now there are loads of people in PE who don't believe in Covid. Huge parties. No masks. They don't give a shit

[OomStruisbaai]

Look like we hit a second wave.

Hoping this closing of beaches is a heap of kak.

Going to have to Oom. Those busses of beachgoers that swarm to the beaches on 16, 26 Dec and 1 Jan are a Covid Timebomb.

It’s a sacrifice we are all going to have to make to defuse it.

Outdoors? They should rather close the activities like shebeens and restaurants

[Fangle]

Look like we hit a second wave.

Hoping this closing of beaches is a heap of kak.

Going to have to Oom. Those busses of beachgoers that swarm to the beaches on 16, 26 Dec and 1 Jan are a Covid Timebomb.

It’s a sacrifice we are all going to have to make to defuse it.

Outdoors? They should rather close the activities like shebeens and restaurants

Is it the oldies who are dying in SA as well? I agree that indoor dining should be very limited, but not outdoor. Allow beer gardens with limited capacity. But I understand the closing of the beaches on New Years Day etc, but not for normal days.

[OomStruisbaai]

It's going to be a disaster with the holiday season starting now.

Myself will lose R50,000. Been booked till end January.

[Blake]

Is it the oldies who are dying in SA as well?

I think they have stopped publishing the ages of C19 victims in SA as I haven’t seen the statistics on that in a while. But the dashbord I used to use for SA C19 tracking definitely showed a trend. More then 60% of the deaths were in the 60+ age range bracket and a large chunk of that in the 80+ bracket.

Anecdotally it’s also been my experience with my own gram and friends who have lost grandparents and elderly parents.

The problem with the younger people is that they are the vectors; taking the virus home to their parents to grandparents that they still live with.

And also, while fatalities for those under 40 are rarer, they obviously still happen.

[Fangle]

I presume that South Africa will be getting largely the Oxford vaccine mainly because it can be stored at room temperature, compared to the American ones which have to be at -20 for one and -70 for the other. In my age bracket I hope to be vaccinated by the end of January.

[Sards]

Damn damn damn....beaches closing down. The whole winter my boys and I have been looking forward to Boogie boarding. It's going to be heart breaking if Western cape beaches close. At least we have been going every weekend . And had an awesome day today ( body is aching in places I have never ached before)..

We are also planning new year on the Orange River doing canoing and camping under the stars..thats probably out the window too.

[Chilli]

I expect long queues outside the bottle stores today.

[assfly]

I can see the thinking behind closing the beaches, but all those people are going to congregate anyway as it's Christmas. Surely it's better if they're outside?

[Enzedder]

Best of luck with your grandmother Blake. It's a shitty disease and no mistake.

Every day I count my blessings over here. I deliver hot meals to elderly residents most days and they still don't want to go out much even though the risk is close to zero - poor buggers.

[Sandstorm]

Even now there are loads of people in PE who don't believe in Covid. Huge parties. No masks. They don't give a shit

They believe AIDS is their disease.

My dad heard this from people in PE a few times recently: “This White-man Covid myth is just in the air, not our bodies”

[Big Nipper]

Even now there are loads of people in PE who don't believe in Covid. Huge parties. No masks. They don't give a shit

They believe AIDS is their disease.

My dad heard this from people in PE a few times recently: “This White-man Covid myth is just in the air, not our bodies”

Trust me, the white folk here in PE are having the same parties, it is a bloody clusterfuck here

[Sandstorm]

Even now there are loads of people in PE who don't believe in Covid. Huge parties. No masks. They don't give a shit

They believe AIDS is their disease.

My dad heard this from people in PE a few times recently: “This White-man Covid myth is just in the air, not our bodies”

Trust me, the white folk here in PE are having the same parties, it is a bloody clusterfuck here

Covid gives you less oxygen which affects your brain. I think PE has has less oxygen for decades.