Local Woman Shares Experience With COVID Vaccine, Mzansi Has Mixed Reactions
- A local woman has taken to social media and shared her experience with the COVID-19 vaccine
- The woman shared that as a breadwinner, she felt it important to receive the jab
- Mzansi had some mixed reactions to the post and took to the comments section to share their thoughts
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A Johannesburg woman has taken to social media to share her experience with getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Lebogang Mashile is a mother and breadwinner, so said she wanted to make sure to stick around for those who depended on her.
Source: Twitter
In the Twitter post, Mashile shared that she had taken her first jab in Soweto along with some healthcare workers. Although not a health professional herself, the poet claims to have received the vaccine to raise public awareness.
She also shared some useful information for those wanting to be approved for receiving the vaccine.
Mzansi definitely had mixed reactions to the post with many wondering how Mashile received a covid jab when many frontline workers hadn't. Safe to say, social media users were not impressed and took to the comments section to share their frustrations.
Check out some of their comments below:
@CoruscaKhaya:
"I assume you can understand why the rest of us are confused about this Sisi?"
@enterprisetv_sa:
"It is wrong...It is #FuckedUp Actually...I'm very upset right now while people are dying daily. People that deserve this Vaccine & some #Poet thinking she deserves to get it before those deserving people. She should have kept quiet.''
@Noli_Motsewe:
"Atleast you are honest that you are promoting the vaccine, due to that I have to unfollow you."
@romeom735:
"Guyz please leave Lebo alone. She is a front line POET after all."
@BontleMS:
"How did you qualify? I thought we were still at the first round...health care workers????"
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Meanwhile, Briefly News previously reported that experts are calling for stricter lockdown restrictions in Mzansi to avoid a vicious impact of the third wave especially since there have been reports of new variants found in the country.
Convenor of the Progressive Health Forum, Dr Asmal Dasoo, and Alex van den Heever, chair of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies at Wits, both agreed that the rules around large gatherings should be changed.
Both of them shared that current limits, which can stretch to 500 people outdoors, must be cut down to just 10 to avoid a devastating impact of the third wave. The South African reports that social gatherings – alongside restrictions on travel, land borders, and curfew hours – will be the first to change this winter.
The publication reports that Professor Adrian Puren of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), believes the country should go back to Level 3 of lockdown before new infections skyrocket again.
He speculated that the stricter version of lockdown could be implemented on a local or district-based scale.
News24 reports that the Free State Health Department revealed recently that the province is already in a third wave. The Gauteng provincial government said the third wave was likely to hit the province in the next few weeks.
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Source: Briefly News
