Fears and thoughts in South Africa

Johno the Japanese St Leger in on Sunday but at this stage have no betting.

Contrail is going for triple crown

Dave Scott wrote: Contrail is going for triple crown

I do hope Contrail wins and keeps his unbeaten record intact. It will set up a showdown with Daring Tact in the Japan Cup in late November 2020. Daring Tact has won the fillies Triple Crown and is currently unbeaten. It will be a race to saviour.

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1/4 thanks Sly.
Not your type of price Johno.

For all the things we have wrong in SA
I have always thought our airports were well run and impressive.
(Even although SAA is another financial disaster).

Well a word of warning, I went to collect George/Zoro after his trip to Umhalanga.

As I arrived at airport there was the normal police to check tax disc.
Then you discover all pick up areas are CLOSED .
This becomes a one hour exercise to drive in single file through the airport to level 2 of the parking.

It reminded me of the basic rules of sanitation principles.
"You cant get a 4 inch shite into a 2 inch pipe".

It was chaos for an hour, with bottle necks as cars tried to squeeze through limited space with hooting of horns being blasted in protest.

100s of arrivals trying to find their pick ups and relatives.

I have no idea why a smooth running system was changed?
It certainly could not be a Covid related initiative?
As we had massive congestion on level 2 of the car park.

Eish and with half the passengers

Morning: big or bad news is that a second wave could become a reality with more restrictions in the pipeline.

I am sure this would be a disaster as many companies are just getting back on their feet.

😢😷🙏

Yup, hearing 'unconfirmed' rumours about Level Three and then possibly Level FIVE in December .... shutting down the economy over holiday season would be the death knell for our civil obedience and economy in my opinion.

Presidential address to the nation
expected during the week.
Can't see any back-peddling to another level now with the silly season approaching.
This year's will be a real Black Friday?

The City of Cape Town Festival of Lights Switching on event that attracts crowds of thousands each year has already been cancelled.
The Cape Minstrels Tweede Nuwe Jaarsdag Annual Float through the streets could be a doubtful starter?

This is a real gem of an interview .... you will not see this on MSM ...



Who Dr Scott Atlas is ...

I’m a healthcare policy person — I have a background in medical science, but my role really is to translate medial science into public policy. That’s very different from being an epidemiologist or a virologist with a single, limited view on things.

And some key takeouts...

"What is his policy?
My advice is exactly this. It’s a three-pronged strategy. Number one: aggressive protection of high risk individuals and the vulnerable (typically the elderly and those with co-morbidities). Number two: allocate resources so that we prevent hospital overcrowding, so that people can be treated for this virus and get the other serious medical care that is needed. Number three: open schools, society and businesses because keeping them closed is enormously harmful — in fact it kills people.

Effect of lockdowns
We must open up because we’re killing people. In the US, 46% of the six most common cancers were not diagnosed during the shutdown… These are people who will present to the hospital or their doctor with later stage disease — many of these people will die. 650,000 Americans are on chemotherapy ­— half of them didn’t come in for their chemo because they were afraid. Two-thirds of screenings for cancer were not done; half of childhood immunisations did not get done; 85% of living organ transplants did not get done. And then we see the other harms: 200,000 cases plus of child abuse in the US during the two months of spring school closures were not reported because schools are the number one agency where abuse is noticed; we have one out of four American young adults, college age, who thought of killing themselves in the month of June…

All of these harms are massive for the working class and the lower socioeconomic groups. The people who are upper class, who can work from home, the people who can sip their latte and complain that their children are underfoot or that they have to come up with extra money to hire a tutor privately — these are people who are not impacted by the lockdowns."

Oh and for the record ...his Twitter account has also been blocked