Cultural heritage is a legacy and it always resonates throughout all aspect of our lives be it business processes and socialization.
The epidemiology in Italy reflect how they are socialized, the same can be said for China, Iran, German, Spain.
USA and UK don’t neccessary fit this categorization.
My observations in the former category is that, multigenerations cohabitate in a household. and life expectancy is quite high, younger generation come home to infect the older one. Germany has high life expectancy, no intergenerational cohabitation, a rule based society, their curve tells their story.
Enter RSA, typically in the first category, with a smaller nyana varient on life expectancy which is below its peers, assume is 55yrs. We are expected to have a low mortality rate, in terms of live expectancy, but the HIV and TB issues might exacerbate the infection rate and kink the curve, there is another twist to this, due to the elaborate roll out of ARV treatment the biggest by far in the world per capita the majority of this patient have a prophylactic effect against corona since this agents have antiviral activities in them. Check the curve RSA, this pandemic didn’t start when we started our lockdown, I suspect RSA and the same can be said for most African countries, because of Chinese capital formations in the continent, we have been part of Sino-African commuting, and due to that we might have been all along exposed to the virus unknowingly, it has had its events over and over, again and again people died, but majority recovered and developed immunity hence herd immunity, I remember some weekends when doing my rounds in the townships, streets will often be blocked for funerals but this last year November, it was unusually intense, when I ask whose funerals that was? people replied that it was ma oldladie, or Mkhulu, before it used to be the youth succumbing to HIV related illnesses, also when you check burial notice section of Sowetan you will see geriatics in the majority. Given the squalid environment that our people find themselves living in and the 4 x 4 setting configaration in our taxis and congestion at our ranks and trains it is inconceivable that we will remain sterile from Covid-19. That is my observation, reverse surveys needs to be done to that effect. In the next week or so I expect low mortality rate and low incidences of community infection, .since this will be the second or third round event, that will be cushioned by herd immunity that has developed. So there is always something new in Africa, relax.
JD CEO Emakhaya Emakasi-Mindsets
