Are we truly a nation of alcoholics or is a serious discussion around giving up the nightly gin and tonic, glasses of wine or cans of braai beer just too much to ask to save a (few thousand) lives?
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As we have seen in America, racism will simmer away until there is one incident too many and it all becomes too much. This can easily happen in South Africa as well.
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As the world is slowly starting to return back to work - have we learned anything? Will we individually and collectively change our lives and if so, how? Perhaps it is time we ask what we want.
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We all have a right to our opinions, but Covid-19 does not give anyone the right to hide behind "scientific" or economic theory to disguise racial stereotyping or callousness.
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Having seen what this virus can do, I can’t bear to think what we will look like as a country when this pandemic spreads amongst the millions of people who have suppressed immune systems.
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The president and his ministers have to make impossible choices every day during this crisis - not least sacrificing the economy in order to save lives.
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It feels to me that we are all in a fast-moving rapid of uncertainty at the moment. We have little control over where we are going, but we have to trust that our resilience will eventually carry us to calmer waters.
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I still want to enjoy chocolate dessert and good coffee with friends. But, I also want to show up when it comes to the bigger challenges facing humanity and our natural world.
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With the world literally stopped in its tracks, the only way we can do something to stay safe is to do nothing. Most of us find this difficult, but this deadly virus is forcing all of us to take a breath and to slow down.
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