The figures on the website you mentioned are the South African government figures. Twice that number have died when you look at the number of people who normally die in a year in South Africa and how many have actually died during the past year.

There are no hospitals in the townships, no diagnosis, and people die and are buried. This is Africa — people die and mobody knows who they are and what they died from

So you wanted to know what would have happened if government hadn’t intervened? At least 10% would have died.

Why? Because many more people would have neen infected. Hospitals would have been overwhelmed. We don’t have first world resources.

My ex- husband was one of those who was turned away from a hospital in Cape Town. He was turned away three times despite being obese and 64. He died of Covid. He was also sharing an apartment with four other people.

In is iegal not to wear masks in South Africa — nevertheless a third don’t wear masks. Essentially, the correlations are the better eduacated you are and the more money you have, the more likely you are to wear a mask. And visa versa.

The people who are dying in the Eastern Cape 482/100,000 and the fact that pur death rate has doubled in the past year means we probably have the highest death rate in the world.

After China, South Africa had the toughest lockdown in the world. We are currently on level 3. That’s fine for those of us who don’t live in tin shanties. It’s the guys who are living in areas where tbey cannot socially distance who are dying.