@eNCA@ShahanR@ShahanR The argument of comparing 0.5m to transport industry is that transportation has shorter duration of contact in transport where in schools children spend 8hrs
I watched Prez @CyrilRamaphosa last night hoping to see a spark of anger, a flint of steel, a gaze that says don’t f#ck with me. Instead a dull, scripted plea…
I woke up this morning realising we’re here becoz the same man had the spine to lock us down & put an ex-Prez in jail
Gauteng is experiencing a crisis. We are under pressure. Patients calling for help, they can’t breathe. No hospitals available in Gauteng both Public and Private. Protect the elderly and those with pre existing conditions.
#level5#Covid19SA#COVID19#COVIDVaccination
@jsomethingmusic @jsomethingmusic this was the last song my uncle and I jammed on at my cousin's wedding before he passed of Covid a few months later. Thanks to Zane Koeberg for introducing us to this song. This song will *always* have a place in my heart, on repeat💕🎵
But sometimes, social meaning change is difficult to manage through regulation when the regulation is perceived as attacking the fundamental identity and status of an individual/group
Which may be why we need behavioural scientists/psychologists in assisting fight against Covid
Current reading: “Law is a form of cultural capital that can be captured by opposed
groups [who use it to] stick a flag in the dirt to mark public territory as their own” (Bilz
& Nadler 2009, p. 122)
#lockdownextension#Covid19SA#level3 1/3
Regulations that alter the social meaning of a behaviour can result in a change in the way the people engaging in the behaviour are evaluated (behavoural economics and law)
#lockdownextension#Covid19SA#level3 2/3
Don't get me wrong, human behaviour is a major issue/cause in the spread of the virus. But human behaviour/error is also the cause of the unsuccessfulness of the lockdown. What happened to the money? Why are there still 12000 healthcare vacancies? #cyrilramaphosa#level3lockdown
Calling all Community Radio Broadcasters! I am looking for recommendations of Community Radio Stations in Southern Africa (not just SA) that can be supported with a small grant to infuse COVID-19 messaging into their programming...reply to this thread or my DMs are open
@MbalulaFikile please can you investigate distribution of masks & sanitiser for taxis in (small) Graaff-Reinet.Taxis have waited since your announcement at beginning of lockdown in March/April.Taxis submitted info at that time, but nothing was forthcoming.