How does South Africa return to a pre-pandemic world, or at least one closely resembling it? That’s the question for policymakers as our country’s recovery lags its peers
Whatever sport has tickled your fancy over the past European or American summer, most of us were envious of the large crowds that have been welcomed back into their sporting arenas — for the most part, not physically distancing or wearing the ubiquitous face mask. It’s a picture of a world before March 2020.
As South Africa settles into spring and looks forward to the summer months against the backdrop of a vaccine programme that has long passed its nascent stage, with about 18% of the population having received at least one jab, the country’s policymakers and leading businesses are considering just how to get us back to normal, whatever that will mean in a post-Covid world.
It will be a fascinating journey back to “normal”; some people have even raised comparisons with apartheid divisions — between those who are vaccinated and those who aren’t. This debate won’t be helped by the social-media echo chambers, where conspiracy theories have found a new life since the advent of Facebook some 17 years ago.
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