A few weeks ago President Cyril Ramaphosa effectively ended SA’s lockdown. Tanzanian President John Magufuli didn’t impose one in the first place. They both came to the same conclusion: lockdowns are a losing strategy to contain the coronavirus.
Why? Because you can’t achieve better health outcomes by costing people their jobs or incomes. Making people poorer is a sure-fire way to ensure the coronavirus continues to spread. Data from the US confirms this...
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