I am a businessman from the UK who moved to SA soon after its liberation in the 1990s and have substantial investments in the real estate and tourism sectors that are severely affected by the lockdown.
While the value of human life cannot be quantified in monetary terms, the management of the pandemic with the goal of saving the maximum number of lives is absolutely vital. For reasons extensively explained in the media, the lives lost from economic damage caused by government mismanagement will surely greatly outnumber the lives lost directly from Covid-19...
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