Back in March, I wrote in an unpublished article for News24 that we would "return thoughtfully and carefully to a more normal routine, even if there are dangers still present". When I predicted it, people were talking very differently. Today News24 reports with a banner headline, "Shoppers out and about as malls open for trading ... as the number of coronavirus cases in SA increases." OBSERVATION: While there are many aspects of COVID-19, I do not think it will be as dangerous here as it has been in the West -- for the simple reason that we have a low median age. If one is (perhaps too) simplistic about it, we might have one-third of the problem here in a worst case.
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