Lockdown measures will not cure the disease or prevent the spread of the disease. It will only slow down the spread of the disease. The Minister of Health admits that 80% of people will eventually be infected, it is only a matter of time.

That means that over a period of years, about 1.5 to 2 million South Africans will die with the COVID virus, not necessarily because of it.

They implemented lockdown measures to slow the spread of the disease, but at the same time these measures increase the spread of the economic disease. Which is worse?

They came up with the description of “non-essential” services, but there are no non-essential services in a free-market economy. Non-essential services disappear naturally, through bankruptcy.

They do not exist, or like SAA and Eskom, they are not supposed to exist. Each and every successful business model forms an essential cog in the big machine.

When a politician, health professional, scientist or government official discards one small sprocket and calls it non-essential, the entire machine grinds to a halt.

Let’s look at what happens when the economic machine strips its gearbox.

We have the nasty and messy examples in the wrecks of Zimbabwe and Venezuela. The shops run empty, municipal services implode, the financial system crashes, agricultural production stops and individuals go back to subsistence farming.

It gets much worse though.

Medication like anti-retroviral drugs, anti-biotics and insulin become unavailable as the intricate and fragile supply network is destroyed. Now we can apply this practical example to South Africa.

When a politician decides that a business that forms part of a free-market economy is non-essential, then he sets in motion a chain of events that will have logical, unavoidable consequences.

In South Africa, with our demographics of AIDS cases, TB cases and diabetic cases, this implies that between 15 million to 20 million people will die within 12 months.

So, we have to make a call basically. Life is full of choices you know. You cannot put reality into lockdown merely because you are too scared to make up your mind.

The choice is between 2 million COVID deaths over 24 months or 20 million AIDS, TB and diabetic deaths over a 12 month period. Make up your mind. And please hurry. TB, Aids patients & people with diabetes are waiting for your decision. @CyrilRamaphosa @PresidencyZA @tito_mboweni

This thread taken from comment by Sensei on Moneyweb - excellent thread. @BillGates @Lagarde - Stop SA lockdown!!!!