Imtiaz Sooliman – Urgent Message to South Africans from of Gift of the Givers

Dear viewers, we are back discussing the covid 19 wave. We

are in the third wave, the Delta Adan wave is very, very

destructive. The most important message I have for you is, don't

depend on hospital beds, on ventilators, on oxygen

concentrators on oxygen machines. Depend on yourself. Responsible

behavior is going to help us reduce the number of people

getting sick in this country, and it's going to help us reduce the

number of the number of days that is the wave last in our country.

It will reduce spread. And it's simple precautions we have to

take. Make sure we mask ourself, make sure we avoid going out too

much. Go out once a week, buy everything that you have to buy.

You don't have to stop living, but don't go out to the malls or

places where there's aggregation of people too often. Also, when

you go out, make sure you have the distancing everyone has to have

the responsibility of checking there's nobody in front of them,

behind them, on the side of them. When you're waiting in the queues

to pay, be careful in the queues when you take all your purchases

and you come into the car, don't take off your face mask without

sanitizing your hands first. Always have a sanitizer bottle in

the car to sanitize your hands first, because you could have

picked up infection with your fingers and you touch your face.

Everybody's going to scratch their nose or scratch their face once

you take off their mask. So please don't take off your mask until you

sanitize your hands in the car. Try to avoid visit to families

right now, it's a short period we can spread the infection.

Unfortunately, in this wave, a lot of people don't have loss of

smell, loss of taste, fever, headache, so you could be walking

around as a time bomb, being asymptomatic and passing the

infection on. Don't go out under the influence, whether it's

alcohol, whether it's hard drugs, or whether you're taking

medication that affects your mental state. Please don't go out

then you have to be fully conscious to be aware, to be

mindful before you go out in covid 19 it won't harm right now to

cancel all birthday parties, baby showers, wedding showers, and even

weddings. Even though it says limitation is to 50 people, the

virus affects you. Whether you're five or 50 people. The spread is

is very, very fast. The other important thing is to have good

ventilation in your car, your homes, your offices. If you're

sitting cooped up in your house, go out. But go out to areas where

there's good ventilation, a park, the beach, the nature deserve. If

there's no people around, you can take your mask off and inhale so

you can go out. The most important thing is to avoid contact with

other people, very close contact, the virus spreads from person to

person. If there's no contact, the virus can't spread. It can't

mutate. The waves become shorter. The people survive. We can go back

to normal life much faster. We're fortunate right now. It's only in

gauteng, in a big numbers of infection the other provinces are

not so badly hit. We can protect ourselves. We can prevent spread.

We take simple precautions. So avoid going out to families, avoid

all the other functions. It's very temporary, and if adhere to these

rules, the other important thing is make sure you don't self

medicate with steroids. A lot of people think I'm still sick. Let's

take steroids. You can actually harm yourself. You can get

critically ill. Steroids, giving the wrong phase, can aggravate the

virus. It can spread to your lungs. Only doctors, healthcare

workers should prescribe medication for you. Those who want

to take your lemon and your ginger and your honey, you're welcome to

do that. It's not a cure, it's not a protection, it's not a

safeguard. Makes you feel good, makes you feel good in the body,

nothing protects you against getting infection. Even those that

are vaccinated can get infected. Please remember that vaccination

does not mean you must be reckless and be

and not take any care. You have to take every precaution, like those

who are non vaccinated, because you can spread infection.

Vaccinated, people can get infected. So teachers and

everybody else who's taken it over 60, and those over 50 going to

take it now, please be careful that you can get sick and you can

spread it. So the biggest safeguard is the precaution, the

mass the sanitizing, the social distancing, cutting out contact

with family, people, parties, functions, going to the mall,

limited time. Good ventilation. Ventilation absolutely critical.

Being in office, being in healthcare, in being in hospitals,

being in medical centers, the doctors, healthcare workers.

Ventilation is absolutely critical. We do that. Hopefully

this wave will pass as very soon and will be confined in large

extent to Gauteng, and hopefully we'll be able to deal with it

there and spread will not be to a large extent to the rest of the

country. It can be done. It requires our persistence, our

support and our responsible behavior.

We.