[deanhills]

@deanhills
Want to know what was going to happen without lockdown? Watch Egypt statistics
140+ daily infections and 11+ daily deaths
All we have is a quarantine everyday from 7PM to 6AM next day
Except that,  you are allowed to be in the streets the whole day

That has to be very hard for Egypt and Egyptians @youssefbasha.  Looks like the Egyptian Government called for lockdown without taking care of looking after those who are vulnerable, like people who live in the streets, and people who won't have food when they're not working. Daily wagers.  The Egyptian Government is trying to copy other countries who are more wealthy than Egypt without the necessary resources to back up something as severe as a lockdown. I'm worried given the rioting against Government a few years ago, that this could easily result in that again.  

South Africa has started its third week of lockdown plus 3 further weeks to go. During lockdown the sale of liquor and cigarettes are prohibited. People are getting restless and yesterday there were crowds looting liquor stores.  There are also incidences recorded of army brutality.  Police have been trained to deal with public, but army lacks in skills to deal with care.  The further three weeks were announced a few days ago, and not every one agrees with a full scale further lockdown.  But it has proven in the two first weeks that there has been a slow down in the increase of the Corona cases.  Like "proof".

For me stats have to do with those who have been tested positive, and as we've all learned by now there are Corona cases who could test negative, but still have the virus.  Stats are also as good as the country's way of recording the cases, the quality of tests and the timing of reporting them. I don't have much faith in the accuracy of stats. It can manipulated in any millions of ways. I doubt they are always representative. Like in Italy when during March they got to the critical stage when so many people were dying that they were only testing those who were in need of critical care. For me looks as though Italy didn't manage the virus very well, like things got out of hand, so I'd imagine their statistics will be managed in a similar chaotic out of control way.