South Africa’s brutal lockdown 3: Vaccine chief’s big backers ensured he could not fail
The third and last part of this account of the man at the centre of South Africa’s disastrous lockdown and his widespread network of contacts and supporters. You can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
‘NO ONE is safe until everyone is safe’ is a favourite mantra of Professor Salim S Abdool Karim,South Africa’s number one Covid marshal. ‘Build Back Better’ is another.
Yet another spurious scientific concept South Africa’s most powerful Professor has used to suppress South Africans with is asymptomatic transmission, similarly used by Sage to maintain destructive Covid-19 restrictions in the UK.
In his position as chair of the Covid-19 MAC (the South African version of Sage), Karim told the then Minister of Health, Zwelini Mkhize, that if 100 people were infected by the virus between 50 and 80 per cent would have no symptoms, and therefore have an asymptomatic infection.
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