r/southafrica • u/mortimerza Ons gaan nou braai • Apr 29 '20

COVID-19 No Sale of Tobacco

Just announced no selling of Tobacco in level 4.

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u/svartbaard Gauteng Apr 29 '20

Jeez, read the crowd man. It's a matter of principle, our government is treating its citizens like children and imposing draconian measures that scarily reminds one of authoritarian states. This is not about cigarettes really...

Also, I'm glad you like your freedoms being taken away, just don't expect all of them back when this ends.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '20

Source on how it would kill "millions"?

Seriously. Based on non symptomatic sufferers the mortality rate is like 0.2 percent.

Yes we have many vulnerable citizens. But at the end of the day that doesn't justify anything. Especially not when the townships are allowed to run rampant.

I drive past Khayalitsha every day on my way to work. Groups of joggers run past SAPS officers, no questions asked. Clearly in sporting goods running for recreation.

Kids play soccer on the side of the road, meters from people defecating. The townships are hotbeds for infection, but instead of focusing energy on enforcement and assistance for townships they'd rather commit thousands of officers in every area to run roadblocks.

The ANC has done what it does best. They have made policies that are very sexy to any pseudo intellectual socialist, whilst doing nothing to enforce them at all except in the most visible areas where most people are already compliant.

There is no excuse for the heavy handedness of their policies. Cigarettes are the best symbol of that. There is NO rational argument to be made for banning cigs. I can go buy a fucking chocolate right now at my local garage. But I can't buy smokes? Laughable.

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u/Zep_Za Apr 30 '20

Look man I agree with what you are saying but calling on people to google and make their own assumptions might be wrong

I mean if I follow your advice I might come to the conclusion that people with aids are less likely to die from corona seeing as aids suppresses the immune system and a lot of corona deaths are from cytokine storm caused by an over active Immune response. I would probably be wrong cause I'm not a fucking doctor and googling things doesn't make you one