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Very interesting! A few thoughts:

1. Surely one should excess deaths rather than official COVID death to calculate mortality rates? When doing this SA COVID deaths per X seem in line with global standards.

2. "South Africa was forced to accept a $4 billion loan from the IMF" - I don't recall it happening like this - "forced". SA pre-emptively asked the IMF for a loan through its short-term fund. We requested it. I supported this request. But note we still had - and have - space for QE and borrowing in bond market. It was not a last resort.

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