SA’s demographics make it especially difficult for the government to respond appropriately to a pandemic such as we are experiencing. This is because what is appropriate for the relatively affluent is impossible for the poor.
The affluent can safely isolate, avoid queues when shopping, work from home, do amusing and educative stuff on the internet, dig into savings and so on. ..
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