average joe wrote: Thu Mar 04, 2021 7:23 am You cant sell goods to dead people. Look I'm with you on the economical stuff and the damage done will be felt for years. The Quarantine was never meant to beat the virus, it cant and it wont. I said so from the get go. It was meant to get our medical sector ready for what was to come. If you consider that the Chines managed to build a hospital in a matter of days and that we received hundreds of millions of rands in aid monies, the initial 14 days should have been enough. OK so make it a month seeing as we're on African time here.
Most of the people I spoke to recon that some of the "rules" was/is utterly moronic and was put in place out of sheer spite to punish us for something we had nothing to do with. You cant sit on your high throne and tell the voting public that it's because they don't behave, that they cant have a responsible drink because you failed to police a handful of miscreants who cant handle their dop or that they cant visit a beach or go for a jog outside whilst you stole the money that was meant to get us out of this shit. The never ending extended "lockdowns" is the direct result of our corrupt officials incompetence, it's not because of us. But you'll never see a politician stand up and say "sorry guys it's because I fucked up" they'll always look for something or someone ells to blame.
In saying all this though, our economy was a fuckup long before covid. Our public medical sector has been a cesspit of corruption for years. Our police force is full of incompetent, ignorant, criminal fat arses who cant chases and catch a criminal even if their lives depended on it. Most of them cant even read or write FFS. All covid has done is highlight what we all already knew ages ago.
our goverment has to be held accountable...
so much could have been done differently and the economy could have been in a far better position.
that's some proper old school Saffa reasoning there. 
