BusinessForEndingLockdown

Business for Ending Lockdown is a campaign to make the position of businesses in SA clear: #EndLockdownSA, because it is causing a humanitarian disaster.

[BusinessForEndingLockdown @EndLockdownSA]

Attention international donors: Crowd-fund for @PanData19 now accepting credit card and other international payments at https://t.co/PB80cPrvL2, independently processed by @PayFast.

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International donors: By popular demand, we will asap enable credit card options, etc. for donations from around the globe. If you want to be alerted when ready, fire a brief email at https://t.co/PB80cP9UTu. @PanData19 @NickHudsonCT

[BusinessForEndingLockdown @EndLockdownSA]

...and significantly freeing up the private healthcare sector to find innovative, efficient solutions to capacity constraints.

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[BusinessForEndingLockdown @EndLockdownSA]

** THREAD **

B4EL notes with grave concern the Level 3 lockdown restrictions announced by the president on Monday night.

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https://t.co/Qb77NBmeH4

[BusinessForEndingLockdown @EndLockdownSA]

Business for Ending Lockdown therefore urges government to lift the state of disaster and instead focus on addressing healthcare capacity at source through solutions at source, reprioritising state funds, running tenders with best-in-class, efficient contractors...

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[Martin Kulldorff @MartinKulldorff]

#12 It is important for public health scientists and officials to listen to the public, who are living the public health consequences. This pandemic has proved that many non-epidemiologists understand public health better than some epidemiologists. / END
https://t.co/K5P8hI9prM

[Martin Kulldorff @MartinKulldorff]

#11 In public health, open civilized debate is profoundly critical. Censoring, silencing and smearing leads to fear of speaking, herd thinking and distrust.
https://t.co/muKLMZA2Fp @JeanneLenzer1

[Martin Kulldorff @MartinKulldorff]

#10 Public health scientists and officials must be honest with what is not known. For example, epidemic models should be run with the whole range of plausible input parameters.
https://t.co/PjgKUfD6ma

[Martin Kulldorff @MartinKulldorff]

#9 Public health is about trust. To gain the trust of the public, public health officials and the media must be honest and trust the public. Shaming and fear should never be used in a pandemic.
https://t.co/Jj4jzX92p2 @camakridis

[Martin Kulldorff @MartinKulldorff]

#8 A case is only a case if a person is sick. Mass testing asymptomatic individuals is harmful to public health.
https://t.co/i5359svCKU