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”.
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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Sounds like a great place NOT to go for a holiday. Dumb politicians led by Covid-obsessed medics.
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.
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.
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.
So the sickness continues …and I don’t mean Covid -19.
south afrika, still steadily sliding back towards the stone age.
Cupid Stunts !…..
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!
“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!
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.
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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.
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?
‘Freedom is airborne as well, and it’s spreading’ – Neil Oliver
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.
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.
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?
Should read:
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.
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.
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.
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?
They will not let go – they intend to keep it going for ever, with the servile help of the lying, sold-out Global Media.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
Start planning your bug out location.