Soon after the coronavirus arrived on South African shores, earlier this year, and government imposed a Level 5 lockdown towards the end of March, South Africa, like much of the world, found itself face-to-face with an enemy no one had seen creeping in.
We trustingly accepted that what we were told by government was the right way to go about protecting ourselves and others from the new virus.
In those early days, we were too shocked and scared of the virus – not of government – to interrogate the new government directives. In fact, many of us were simply glad to leave all that to our leaders, trusting that they knew better and could only have our best interests at heart.