The more business we allow now the fewer job losses will be. Not saying all business but saying those that can be done safely. Creating a job is far harder than losing 1 sustainable one. The Bazooka approach that SA is using will lead to far more deaths than the virus. Watch!
For example, the grocery store can sell liquor, cigarettes, garden, hardware etc. Takeaways are no different to grocery deliveries. Clothing stores should also open as people need clothes etc.. If DSTV, MTN, ISP can deliver why not Takealot, Edgars or Pet store down the road? 2
Why is underwear not an essential service for example or masks at a hardware store? Why kill the economy as much as possible and then blame as a virus when clearly the Bazooka method is very much at fault too? We should rather find ways to keep the economy going or we will starve
Businesses are what we need. SA went into this crisis with the highest unemployment rate ever and in the World. Our economy was being braaied anyway. Now we not only burning the meat but the Pap & vegetables too. Where are the economic cluster ministers?
Please listen as those small guys are folding as are big ones. Maybe you want to be in the stone age but we are a modern economy we can keep many services and even some production running without spreading the virus. Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea not China should be the example
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