ANALYSIS Lockdown squabbling and false Covid-19 certainty will endanger us all By Rebecca Davis becsplanb
that he and other senior citizens should be “willing to take a chance on [our] survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren”.: “In the choice between the loss of our way of life as Americans and the loss of life, of American lives, we have to always choose the latter”.
This was an outcome that was ruefully predicted by epidemiologists globally at the outbreak of the pandemic: that if mitigation efforts actually succeeded in preventing widespread death, the “fuss about nothing” voices would grow ever louder, and the economic hit would ultimately be reckoned to have been unnecessary.
Now the conflict between health and economy appears to be splitting the government’s own advisers on the pandemic, withthat the ministerial advisory committee is fraught with tension over the issue of the government’s phased lockdown easing plans. Gray has since clarified that her criticism was limited to the particularly controversial new regulations dictating which kinds of clothing could be sold.
On Covid-19, there has appeared to be a remarkable singularity of purpose between the different camps – up until recently, when things have seemed to begin fraying. There are hints of tension behind the scenes far more profound than the spat which hit the media this weekend: allegations of vested interests and funding conflicts threatening to derail cooperation.
ostensibly showing that MAC members feel that South Africa’s lockdown should be lifted, individual quotes from the scientists involved revealed considerable differences of opinion.
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