DiKgotla (Admin centres) are Virus hotspots
Someone with authority needs to intervene urgently. The administration centres at which people are required to apply for permits to leave their yards during the current lockdown have turned into potential virus distribution points. Some people need to visit doctors; others to buy groceries, and yet others to go tend to their crops in the fields. All are required to apply each time, basically each day. Imagine some two hundred desperate people queued outside a KGOTLA. Who can possibly enforce a 2 metre separation in such a situation? In fact what happens is that they congregate in one place, shout profanities, and curse whoever they think is forcing them into that situation. I have witnessed such an agitated crowd outside a kgotla today. No one was wearing a mask. Every single person was cursing, and none seemed to remember that any social distancing guidelines exist.
It became obvious to me that if ONLY one person was infected in that crowd, two hundred left already infected. Accordingly I beat a fast retreat to escape possible infection. Lockdown offers the only hope for us to escape eradication by coronavirus. About that there can be no doubt whatsoever. However, the issuance of permits needs to be changed. More control needs to be exercised by the population. The people need to be their own police. We have already seen good results of people cooperating with law enforcement to apprehend border jumpers. This is yet another reason why names of those who have been infected or who have succumbed to the virus should not be kept secret. Families should be encouraged to release the names of their relatives who have passed. But as for infection, the government should immediately release the names of all those who have been tested at taxpayer's expense, and have been found to be either suffering from the virus or to have recovered from the virus. That way the reality of the virus presence will hit us hard. We will enforce social distancing among ourselves without prompting by any authority.
It became obvious to me that if ONLY one person was infected in that crowd, two hundred left already infected. Accordingly I beat a fast retreat to escape possible infection. Lockdown offers the only hope for us to escape eradication by coronavirus. About that there can be no doubt whatsoever. However, the issuance of permits needs to be changed. More control needs to be exercised by the population. The people need to be their own police. We have already seen good results of people cooperating with law enforcement to apprehend border jumpers. This is yet another reason why names of those who have been infected or who have succumbed to the virus should not be kept secret. Families should be encouraged to release the names of their relatives who have passed. But as for infection, the government should immediately release the names of all those who have been tested at taxpayer's expense, and have been found to be either suffering from the virus or to have recovered from the virus. That way the reality of the virus presence will hit us hard. We will enforce social distancing among ourselves without prompting by any authority.
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