Dad, on the eighth anniversary of your passing, I'm remembering how incredibly kind and joyful you were. I deeply miss you you wonderful, hairy man and will be celebrating your life today. Love you so so much!
This is the New York Times summary of this blowback for South Africa: "The nation put its sophisticated disease surveillance and research systems to good use, and quickly shared the results with the world, only to have its transparency repaid with damaging travel bans."
Hear this out. UK with 47,240 confirmed cases yesterday put Botswana (60 new), South Africa (2,466 new) on red list and banned travellers from these countries. Meanwhile Germany recorded 75,565 new cases.
We could be mean & call the new corona variant "the Belgian variant" because it was detected there 5 days ago in a patient who had not been near southern Africa. But we know better. Give it a name, it doesn't belong to a country. Don't punish SA because our scientists are clever
Looking at all the tweets from proudly unvaccinated South Africans who believe the fourth wave is a government hoax. A lot of people are going to die in December and January. What a waste.
My heart goes out to Elita de Klerk, family, colleagues and friends of FW de Klerk. It took courage and the choice of hope over fear to cross the rubicon entailed in the release of Nelson Mandela,unbanning political parties and enter into constitutional negotiations #RIPFWdeKlerk