'Project Restart' the most presidential thing to do
President Hage Geingob yesterday firmly drilled himself into the hearts of many Namibians who knew any frailty in government's handling of lockdown regulations would all but end their lives.
Amid rising Covid-19 cases (23 recorded over the past four days), Geingob, who is presiding over an economy in recession, knew he was putting the final nail in the coffin of already suffering Namibians if he extended non-productive lockdown regulations.
While it is generally a gamble to relax some of the measures, it was simply fatal – in the true sense of the word – that important industrial cities such as Walvis Bay would remain under draconian economic curfews.
Geingob finds himself between a rock and a hard place. Locking down the economy could literally starve people to death; the same death he is trying to protect the nation from in the name of Covid-19.
It is an act of robbing Peter to pay Paul, in the true parable of a dog chasing its own tail.
The only choice the President had, and he delivered on this front, was to find a way in which the nation can walk the thin line of protecting livelihoods while staying safe from the virus.
Geingob needs everyone right now. He alone cannot steer this country away from the storm that is the coronavirus if those aboard his ship are looking away and leaving the captain to do all the sailing.
Amid rising Covid-19 cases (23 recorded over the past four days), Geingob, who is presiding over an economy in recession, knew he was putting the final nail in the coffin of already suffering Namibians if he extended non-productive lockdown regulations.
While it is generally a gamble to relax some of the measures, it was simply fatal – in the true sense of the word – that important industrial cities such as Walvis Bay would remain under draconian economic curfews.
Geingob finds himself between a rock and a hard place. Locking down the economy could literally starve people to death; the same death he is trying to protect the nation from in the name of Covid-19.
It is an act of robbing Peter to pay Paul, in the true parable of a dog chasing its own tail.
The only choice the President had, and he delivered on this front, was to find a way in which the nation can walk the thin line of protecting livelihoods while staying safe from the virus.
Geingob needs everyone right now. He alone cannot steer this country away from the storm that is the coronavirus if those aboard his ship are looking away and leaving the captain to do all the sailing.
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