EDITORIAL: Un-fracturing a bitter SA
SA society, always teetering on the edge of fracture, has turned particularly ugly behind the closed doors of the lockdown
SA society, always teetering on the edge of fracture, has turned particularly ugly behind the closed doors of the lockdown. Even though there is little firm data on a pandemic that didn’t exist a year ago, and epidemiological and economic models are shifting all the time, many people have nonetheless formed inflexible, terrifyingly absolute positions.
On the one side you have the "enders" who swear every bit of data has always told us that lockdowns are an abomination, and the country’s workers should be flooding into offices; on the other, we have the "downers", who will regale you with terrifying data about Swedish towns where the elderly are being swept away as if by a flood...
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