Covid-19 pandemic

I argued against the imposition of a strict lockdown in South Africa on the basis that its harms were likely to be widespread and it would exhaust scarce societal resources before the pandemic had run its course (March 2022): https://theconversation.com/covid-19-the-cure-could-be-worse-than-the-disease-for-south-africa-134436

“South Africa’s one-sided lockdown: coercing the poor, coddling the rich?” (April 2020): https://africasacountry.com/2020/04/south-africas-one-sided-lockdown-coercing-the-poor-coddling-the-rich

South Africa’s use of Covid-19 modelling was deeply flawed (June 2020): https://theconversation.com/south-africas-use-of-covid-19-modelling-has-been-deeply-flawed-heres-why-140002

A critical assessment of the first 90 days of South Africa’s Covid-19 response (December 2020): https://theconversation.com/covid-19-in-south-africa-a-critical-assessment-of-the-first-90-days-151107