Since the onset of the Covid-19 infection and the subsequent availability of vaccines, psychology has been exploited relentlessly in justifying lockdowns, facemask conformity, social distancing, quarantines and vaccine acceptance. The front-page...
Wherever Covid-19 restrictions are applied they have a negative socio-economic effect. Business Report of August 5 notes the setback business has again suffered from the recent lockdown while Liberty Holdings paid out 61% more on mortality...
The debate concerning the rights of individuals to oppose Covid-19 vaccination and the obligation of employers to ensure a safe working environment (The Mercury, August 2), is quite unnecessary because it ignores an obvious solution. Degrees of...
The issue of whether or not to have the Covid vaccine needs to be seen in the context of certain realities which, in spite of Colin Mark’s views (The Mercury, June 14), should not be ignored. It is a fact that the various vaccines have not...
One of the features of life in South Africa since the implementation of the 1996 constitution is an acute awareness of rights and the establishment of chapter nine institutions such as the Human Rights Commission and the Office of the Public...
Although the further lapse of time will place the Covid-19 experience in context, after one year it surely is time to consider the worth of certain Covid-related measures that have been made mandatory and to declare that masks must fall. The...
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