(1) No government should risk bodies piling up in hospitals and on the streets, so Cyril Ramaphosa is right to extend the lockdown, and yes his addresses to the nation are impressive acts of communication but...
(2) implementation to date has not been successful enough especially with respect to testing and...
(3) @jsteenhuisen and others are right that there is not enough data being generated or shared, including the modeling the government is using...
(4) plus the behaviour of the security services has been disgraceful, so...
(5) stop with the sycophancy and remember that surrendering your critical faculties as a citizen is not an act of patriotism...
(6) oh, and since SA is a constitutional democracy it might want to involve its elected parliament at some point - it’s precisely when the executive is at its most powerful that parliament should be doing its constitutionally mandated job.
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