South Africa has ramped up its restrictions again in response to the recent reported rise in infections associated with new subvariants Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 as the southerly country heads into winter.
South Africa never lifted its mask mandate and, though the mandate was due to end this week, has now extended it. It never lifted it despite the country skipping the Omicron BA.2 wave and having low infection levels for months, its original Omicron wave being much smaller than in other countries (see below) and the variant anyway being considerably milder and posing no threat.
Worse, when the country lifted the ‘state of disaster’ in April it did not say goodbye to its emergency Covid laws but codified them into permanent, ordinary law. Thus it is now a matter of ordinary law in South Africa to wear face-coverings in any indoor public setting or building and on public transport.
In addition, South Africa has used its new “Regulations Relating to the Surveillance and the Control of Notifiable Medical Condition 2022” to re-impose 50% capacity limits on gatherings over 100 people and require vaccination or a negative test to attend.
The Government has issued a statement saying it is still treating COVID-19 as a “life-threatening disease”.
However, researcher Dr. Ridhwaan Suliman points out that the new ‘wave’ is already running out of steam as “positivity has stabilised/levelled off over [the] past few days”.
Test % positivity starting to stabilise in South Africa
— Ridhwaan Suliman (@rid1tweets) May 4, 2022
Whilst #COVID19 testing remains low, partly public holidays but mostly fewer people seeking testing, it's skewed data on confirmed cases. But % positivity has stabilised/levelled off over past few days=good news for nowpic.twitter.com/89LSK1Qfvl
Certainly there is currently no sign of a big new wave, though that could perhaps change.
Either way, though, there are no indications the disease is anything serious or socially critical. The most worrying thing, of course, is that the South African Government still thinks Covid warrants imposing restrictions on society, and worse, has created permanent new laws to make this a normal part of public health management. It leaves us asking: if a disease this mild can be used as a reason to suspend basic rights, how do human rights and freedom mean anything at all?
Stop Press: Professor Carl Heneghan has told Julia Hartley-Brewer on TalkTV: “South Africa is bringing back vaccine passports, travel restrictions and masks. My concern is we go into winter and see a domino effect of these policies.”
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‘… the recent reported rise in infections…’
‘South Africa never lifted its mask mandate and, though the mandate was due to end this week, has now extended it. ‘
So continue with what obviously doesn’t work.
Are these people actually mentally ill?
Yes and probably more.
So continue with what obviously doesn’t work. Are these people actually mentally ill?
Nobody ever changed his opinion on anything just because it was demonstrably wrong.
The tyrant leaders are drunk with power and ignorance – the suffering people are their helpless victims.
The reason for the never-ending mask mandates is that Cyril doesn’t want the young ladies to see his ginormous hooter. I suppose that is a kind of mental illness, which rhinoplasty would solve.
Mental illness in all its forms seems to have gripped “the West”. The Russians seem to have escaped the “Western plague” and plod steadily and purposefully on.
Not true. Russia’s vax policies are extreme, not much different to the rest.
Headline is somewhat misleading. No new restrictions, just failure to drop existing measures, and this is heading to court already. Most people here go about their business normally (ie: no masks).
Our much vaunted 5th wave is currently no more than a ripple, as expected, much to the disappointment of certain people.
An SA pharmaceutical company set up a vaccine production facility (J&J) with great fanfare. It is about to close because no orders have been received from Africa. Somebody should have done a little market research!
The African public are far more svvy regarding vaccine dangers.
Years of being murdered by Gates taught them that.
Gates came nowhere near South Africa. I know, it’s all one big country to you.
…… and he had nothing to do with the AIDS response in SA (NOT)
Gates owns WHO.
Meanwhile, the very high vax take up rate in Europe and the West ought to have us concerned about a steady population decline over the next decade after a whole range of ‘short illnesses’….viz cancers strokes, myocarditis, circulation problems, spontaneous abortions, neurological issues and extreme vulnerability to any passing pathogen.
Perhaps that is why Johnson has the foresight to keep offering a home in Britain to anyone around the world he can find. This is presumably what he meant by “Global Britain” – there ought to be plenty of room!
But hey! Was that beer Starmer was swilling or Ginger Ale and did Rayner do a ” knees up” turn for the assembled Party Hacks? Dan Wootton wants to know!
oops
True. Fake Media keep on inflating the numbers that they claim are vaccinated. All a psyop. But we are a different bunch. We refused to take the pill because it was a colonial plot to prevent us from increasing in numbers so we could get the majority vote. Then we refused to use condoms for the same reason, rather opting to take a shower. Now we refusing to take a vaccine because they want to genetically modify us and kill us. Latest stats claimed for vaxed individuals decreased from 40% to 30%. At one time it was 60%. Nobody cares.
Thanks.Always best to hear reality from someone there.My impression of SA(never being there) is large parts of cities etc are shantytowns,where even police does not go into frequently.Are we to believe there will be checking mask wearing or testing vaccine passport in mass gatherings there?.These measures mainly in white,Indian,mixed race, middle class black commuity.The rest of the proletariat couldn’t care less of these stupid measures and the auhorities are not doing any serious to enforce them.Just a tick on the paper to show that SA is not an African country
Am I wrong?
We don’t have a proletariat. Everybody stopped working in favour of living off social welfare. There are some Zimbabweans around who do work, though, but there’s a burning desire to stop them. Please excuse the dark humour.
Majority seem very keen for the Universal Basic Income. They can sit under a tree, living off R450 a month, while the chidren die of starvation and lung infections from masks, all that matters is doing nothing and their drugs and alcohol.
Our 5th wave is the normal winter flu season.. Expect the usual panic when it peaks in late May, early June. And by flu, I mean ILI (Influenza Like Illnesses), which will probably include sub sub sub variant B.5.1.1 of sub sub variant B.5.1 of sub variant B.5 of variant B of variant Omicron of Covid. The original Wuhan strain must feel completely abandoned.
Good for you & your fellow citizens , ignore the idiots & live life
( until they chip us anyway )
Covid comes and goes as it pleases — but it tends to follow a broad pattern. SA shows this pattern rather better than most countries — probably because they intervene in the diseases progression less than many Western countries (whether by NPI or vaccination).
I’d suggest that the time is about right for SA to have its next Covid wave — if it is starting now it’ll take a month or so to reach a peak. I think it looks a teeny bit early, in which case it might peak a little later — perhaps mid-June.
I’d have thought that it would be about the same size as previous peaks, with few hospitalisations (in countries with low vaccination rates — this’ll probably also be the case in high-vaccination rate countries as well).
The variant will be whatever is predominant at the time the wave is due (the wave is driven by various factors, including the population wide level of ‘short term immunity), rather than there being a terrifying new variant that intrinsically drives the wave.
We sometimes see a slight slowdown in new cases for a few weeks at the start of each major wave. We’re not sure why this might be; my personal thoughts are that it is associated with the seeding of new superspreaders into the community.
To add, we’re due our (UK) next wave starting at about the end of the month and peaking late June. We’ll just have to wait and see if we get it (it will probably not be so noticeable because of ‘summer’, but if testing continues (eg, Zoe) then it should be visible in the stats if it comes on time).
Time to dig out that trusty face rag to ward off the coming plague. And maybe a sprig of lucky heather.
……and the lungs continue to fill with microplastics.
… causing more new respiratory disease(s)??
More Bollox.
Just what the “doctor” ordered!
Bollox.
More of the same old balderdash as if it can somehow either yield different results or they actually desire the results of balderdash put into practice.
Human rights and freedom mean nothing to the WHO. As the WHO is capable of dictating policy based on their complete disregard of either of both, it follows that the so-called international world order is inherently tyrannical and that the demos in so-called democracies doesn’t really rule anything. This is especially evident in countries using so-called proportional representation election systems. According to a recent survey, the least unpopular party in Germany (CDU) is rejected by 73% of the population. The three parties forming the current coalition government in Germany are rejected by 77% (SPD), 81% (Greens) and 89.5% (FDP) respectively. Claiming that any of these groups would have a democratic mandate is obviously ridiculous.
Start planning your bug out location.
You could interpret enthusiasm for lockdowns and other restrictions as a jadedness with life of such magnitude that people would rather stay at home than mix with people. I have noticed this tendency being encouraged and they were pushing at an open door for many people. As if their work life and social life are so miserable or insignificant that they aren’t even worth leaving the house for. There seems to be a silent taboo about acknowledging the obvious fact that lockdowns don’t work and could never work. These agoraphobic tendencies have been growing for years. There was a survey conducted in America which asked children which invention they hated most and they said that it was smartphones because the parents spent more time on their phones than they did engaging with them and it made them feel sad and neglected.
I can’t stand other people for more than about ten minutes and have worked from home for the last twenty years, that doesn’t mean I want everything I do enjoy like the pub and the swimming baths closed for no reason
And here in Germany we have a “basic protection” law which includes masks in public transport. In Berlin it is mandatory to wear a FFP2 mask. The mask mandate was not dropped even last summer when the numbers were negligible. In the federal state of Berlin the education authority has announced this week that testing will continue in schools for the forseeable future…without any scientific evidence to justify why that is necessary (nearly all other Federal States have dropped testing in schools) and why Berlin needs to do things differently. I have waited in vain for an outcry from the parents, but am still waiting… I am starting to get really worried. The situation is unsettling and I seem to be in the minority feeling this way.
Rot-Rot-Grün. Socialists (SPD), communists (the x times renamed SED) and globalist neo-liberals (Green). It’s hard to imagine a coalition administration more inclinded to make Germans suffer because they just deserve nothing better. The solution is Do something against it, ie, don’t wear a mask. As that’s not practically possible in Germany, carry one with you and only ever put it on after being ordered to do so.
Das sind Kleinigkeiten, aber es streut alles Sand in’s Getriebe.
Alles beginnt als Kleinigkeiten…
JFTR: The noun should be singular here, ie, Kleinigkeit. Alternatively, subject and verb would need to be plural as well, eg Alle Dinge beginnen als Kleinigkeiten.
One of BBC’s top stories on their site: Estimated Covid death toll now 15 million, WHO says.
If they’re really going to start up this crap again come Autumn, just bring on the nukes and put us out of our misery.
And being loyally reported by the Lügenpresse. Remember that the approved vocab is “from”.
They’re only saying that 15 million have died so that they can say that fewer have died in 2022 and it was the vaccines that made the difference.
It’s either that, or they have inflated the figures, so it appears the jab associated deaths weren’t as bad in comparison to “covid deaths”.
Still don’t know anyone who died of, or with it, so by trebling the figures it makes it even more unbelievable from my point of view.
All BS – like all MSM.
The truth is shouting out loud now but the BBC and the power crazed elites are playing deaf and dumb..
One of BBC’s top stories on their site: Estimated Covid death toll now 15 million, WHO says.
They’re calling this real COVID death toll in the headline and its based on the assumption that basically all of the so-called excess mortality since 2020 were people who died from COVID-19. There’s no justification for that, obviously. The WHO just claims that it must be true, because they want it to be true. They’re even including entirely made-up death counts for sub-saharan Africa because they don’t even have the usual, shitty government death counts for most of the region.
I’m starting to wonder if this bunch of habitual liars and honestly stupid would-be soothsayers will voluntarily stop with this nonsense before they’re torn to pieces by an angry mob. They’re surely working towards that as hard as they can.
BBC lies – never stop coming.
Without wanting to be rude:
No shit Sherlock…….
Boring as it is we need to keep saying it! Is it is still ‘news’ to so many.
Perhaps a few of the bleating sheep are taking note!
Major problem is in the use of numbers. 15 million is a big sounding number. If you told people 0.2% of the world’s population or 1 person in 500 over 2 years, so 1 in 1000 per annum, average age 80+, had died it wouldn’t sound scary at all. Devious people these “journalists”.
There’s some interesting stats on Worldometer
Coronavirus Cases:
515,610,972
Deaths:
6,271,016
Recovered:
470,337,542
Contrast this with the 12 Million people who die of starvation every year.
I think it should be150 million. WHO, go big. or go home.
Lies, damned lies and the BBC.
I think it helps to see it more as an intensification or concentration of time. You could look back a year and see it as the good old days. In a couple of months time you could look back a week with nostalgia. Intensity is a given, there is no way back from it. And so in such circumstances you have to change the entire orientation of your soul. The hurly burly the malestrom. If it seems daunting then consider the alternative – rotting away in the air-conditioned nightmare on a lukewarm liberal ticket to oblivion.
That’s China and now South Africa ramping up restrictions against all the evidence. Something else is going on here, and it doesn’t bode well for the rest of us.
Unrelenting “Great Reset” = ruin the summer with a New Deadly Gates Strain -found under a stone by his GERM gang!
Most of us knew it would back this year, it’s a matter of when not if. The next round will close down the economy and induce food shortage, rampant inflation and terminal destruction of wealth and assets. If only the idiots that place trust in the government would wake up.
There have been several reasons postulated for China’s overreaction. Paranoia about attacks, practice for a drill in more serious circumstances etc, I think that there will be consequences in terms of brain toxicity that will be difficult to deal with. Why has Amazon felt it necesaary to include a zombie apocalypse uner the definition of force majeure? I think it will be more like severe dementia patients dying at home requiring immensely expensive treatment and their loved ones so on the bones of their arse that they couldn’t possibly hklp even if they wanted to.
They’re not exactly bright to start with!
Heneghan’s concerns are absolutely right. Why can’t we have a trifecta lockdown of lockdown for climate, Ukraine and the coof. Just lock yourself in, bend over and kiss your sorry ass gooodbye. Because if you don’t pick it up on the level of spirit then this is what you’re gong to get. It is at that point. You have to let it all go. England never used to be so money grubbing so perhaps we can somehow go backwards.
It is already happening baby. If you live with someone who took the needle you will notice that they are more angry and waspish and this is just the start. Wait and see. But don’t pretend that everything is hunky dory.
They will not let go – they intend to keep it going for ever, with the servile help of the lying, sold-out Global Media.
Listen people we are moving into serious times. We need to start thinking about things on a higher level. Don’t get me wrong I Iove the trivial bullshit but seriously we need to start thinking about real world events.
What do you imagine we have been thinking about for the past two years – ever since the disastrous theft of the US Election in a Deep State coup?
Maybe being marooned on an island will help. Honestly I don’t mean to be too serious but we are moving into serious times and we need to move into that modality. It won’t be a matter of choive or politics. Please, can we move beyond that.
The person you live with – how will they cope in the situation to come? My point is that this isn’t some distant fairytale. It is now. We do our best to keep decorum. Anyway, the very essence of our times is that there isnt really anything to say about them.
There is no way back through the state or some sort of approximation. This affects all of us. There really is an opportunity for us free thinkers to form an orgainisation of our own.
Should read:
Good interview on the Pfizer data which they weren’t allowed to keep secret for 75 years:
https://dailyclout.io/dr-naomi-wolf-shares-shocking-new-pfizer-discoveries/
The worst crime in USA since Watergate, if not much earlier.
Also video = only 18 mins. = good.
Much worse than “Watergate” – how many did ‘Watergate’ kill?
I’ve spoken with many South Africans about this recently. The people I’ve spoken with tell me South Africans are on a short fuse now about this, and this continuing fraud is not going to end well for the hubristic criminal psychopath perpetrators – they can confidently expect Nuremberg 2.0, they’re failing worldwide, Nemesis is coming and She will deliver a Judgement more terrible than anything the perpetrators can possibly imagine.
The floods in Kwa Zulu may already be a portent of her wrath,
We don’t believe earth is a person or a being. Nemesis is is the reaction of the population. Those riots in Kzn will look like child’s play because they already want to kill Cyril.
There is no new wave and there is no variant. There isn’t even an effective test for the first so called variant, it is absolutely ridiculous what people are falling for. Since when does a respiratory illness never end? Until now that is. They usually last for 3-4 months then you move onto the next- cold or flu. All normal. They just need to keep the lies going as they attempt to push on with the NWO. People need to stop talking about a virus and waves and look at the bigger picture.
The 4 current coronas have never ended. They do come and go in Winter, though.
Are you perhaps talking about flu?
All MSM is BS – we have to keep reminding ourselves that there is no longer any honest or objective MSM journalism – even when the BS is repeated by an honest site like this one, it is still BS!
It all serves the ubiquitous Globalist False Narrative.
‘Freedom is airborne as well, and it’s spreading’ – Neil Oliver
The truly frightening Orwellian development is that they have found a loophole in our constitution called “subordinate legislation”, which means any law can now be passed if its “subordinate” to an already existing Act of Parliament. Well, that won’t be a problem, so no parliamentary approval will be required for any law from now on. Quite fortuitous, really. because the actual physical parliament burned down in Jan. The Covid restrictions are being enshrined into permanent law under the “subordinate legislation” that it belongs in the Health Act, and some other labour act that I haven’t bothered to research. A warning to the rest of the world, South Africa has the reputation of being the progenitor of new variants, like Beta and Omicron, so beware.
Omicron destroyed the crown virus of the satanic psychopaths. Don’t you know that?
I expect WHO have had a word with them. The WHO need to maintain fear, and a country which says (like SA did) that the current wave (of whatever it is) is mild and not to be feared, is not helpful to this.
$$$
Yes, WHO is mentioned in the legislation writ itself. WHO is currently heading up the work of the implementation of the great reset, but soon enough there will be a great resistance and since everyone is sitting back and doing nothing to stop they psychopathic evil rulers, it will no doubt become so extreme that it will lead to bloodshed and destruction.
“South Africa is bringing back vaccine passports, travel restrictions and masks. My concern is we go into winter and see a domino effect of these policies.”
But of course we will, this is what ‘they’ want. It’s all never really gone away (viz two big contracts for working on ID passes, etc), our attention is simply being distracted by the Ukraine/Russia thing. We really do all need to wake up!
Masks in public buildings and on public transport have now become part of ordinary law.
That is horrendous. All the staff who are now supposed to wear a face covering for at least 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks, for 30+ years working?
This needs to be revoked. I will cause a wave of physical and mental distress at least.
More than distress, it will actually make people ill and give them lung disorders in turn making them more vulnerable to wandering, mutating man- made respiratory viruses and pathogens .
Anyone would think the Global Elites actually want people to be ill wouldn’t they?
But then after all, if people aren’t “ill” how can Gates sponsor lucrative ‘vaccine’ developments for them and have them enforced by the WHO he controls?
Gates told a gathering he addressed from the stage recently that wearing a mask was just like wearing underpants and people should just stop making as fuss and get used to it ( video clip exists). What a very strange man he is.
Permanent ‘illness’ is the new cash-cow for the ever greedy Billionaires!
Cupid Stunts !…..
south afrika, still steadily sliding back towards the stone age.
So the sickness continues …and I don’t mean Covid -19.
What “variants??? “Masks”???
Daily Sceptic, I think I just had enough of your continuous gibberish and your supposed ‘alternative’ views.
You are obviously contributing to perpetuate the C19 fraud!!!
This article is in fact reporting facts. Go away.
I live in South Africa. I went out shopping today. The people I spoke to, when objecting when told to put the mask on, seem oblivious of the fact that this has nothing to do with covid but is about totalitarian control. Everyone is carrying on as if everything is normal. The problem is that we have a very low level of political intelligence in our country and a high level of apathy. Most prefer to avoid confrontation. The few organisations that are trying to fight this seem inept at doing so, perhaps deliberately. Public participation is almost nil or ignored when invited for comment on Legislative Bills. Just going through the motions. The president treats the populace like little children and they seem to be loving it.
Apparently the vaccine factory has shut down? It bears some very very interesting research into the Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong, who is, like Elon Musk, from South Africa. Another psychopath. South Africa seems to breed them. He is also the richest doctor in the world. Currently, they are doing “test treatments” on children with cancer so the direction of the vaccine factory has changed and become even more insidious.
Sounds like a great place NOT to go for a holiday. Dumb politicians led by Covid-obsessed medics.