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Hallmarks of the anti-CR tweeters: - Anony account - often fake Indian name/surname; - OR anon + black name (and numbers) throws in a 'wena' or occasional isiZulu or other

I'm not an economist but* I wanted to post a short thread because I remain concerned that we are not distinguishing clearly between the alleged economic costs of the lockdown,

#shortthoughts In current arguments I don't believe we always distinguish sufficiently between the effects of lockdown & the effects of the pandemic. It's also easier to 'blame' the lockdown because

Obviously I don't, can't and won't read every single news article about COVID in ZA. But it occurs to me that both the Sunday Times + other Tiso publications, *and*

I agree with calls for transparency + more frequent information. But expecting the media or the public to act responsibly with projections has already been shown to be extremely foolish

I like where mike is going here but both faith and beliefs are opinions, or maybe ‘feelings’, and you can’t ‘prove’ beliefs. Which is ok. Things that you can prove