Coronavirus will not Destroy us but Social Virus will - Cape Town

Coronavirus or Social Virus?

Coronavirus Awareness has the world by storm. There are already thousands of conspiracy theories about the Coronavirus and the most popular is the G5 Syndrome and that Chinese officials has promoted a conspiracy theory that the United States military could have brought the novel coronavirus to China  and it did not originate in the city of Wuhan, as thought.

Cape Town Supermarkets (and probably the rest of South Africa and World) was overwhelmed with mid month shoppers stocking up with canned food, dried beans, sanitizing gel and toilet paper. Toilet Paper?

Let's stand back and re-evaluate.

I do not take this lightly, but social media is making it worse that what it is and is creating havoc and madness in our societies.

Deaths in the World for January and February 2020 According to the data of  University of Hamburg 


2360 : Corona virus
69602 : Common cold
140 584 : Malaria
153,696 : suicide
193,479 : road accidents
240,950 : HIV loss
358,471 : alcohol
716,498 : smoking
1,177,141 : Cancer 

Note that all numbers has increased since the publication at the beginning of March.

What is really happening in the world?

There is  ban from people entering South Africa from high risk countries like China, Italy and mainly Europe. But people from low risk countries has access to South Africa and will be scanned at arrival as said by Cyril Ramaphosa when he addressed the nation earlier this week. 

According to the President, Countries like Portugal (Is that not Europe?) and Hong Kong (Is Hong Kong not on China's South Coast??) are low risk countries.

Cyril Ramaphosa advise us to do the elbow shake, are we not supposed to sneeze in our arms? A good old fashioned "hello" seems good enough for me.

Note: We still bring in 5.5 million chickens every week from high risk countries. That is produce that are touched by thousands of human hands in High Risk Countries

What will happen next?

It is evident that the country will reach an anarchy state. Shops being emptied faster that they can re-stock, companies that are temporally shutting down, schools that closes early and corporate employees starting to work at home.

Soon fuel and electricity won't be affordably due to lack of employees at Eskom and Fuel Refinery plants. Food prices will shoot through the roof and South Africa, listed as one of the countries with the highest un-employment rate are not yet equipped to be self-sustainable for a nation shutdown.

If we cant import food, clothes and medicine Hospitals will not cope with desperate patients, not due to the Coronavirus, but due to lack of nutrition and essential daily intake of protein

This, without any doubt will go down in history as the biggest famine and  pestilence that South Africa and many other countries in the world will ever see.