My thoughts exactly. the timing was just too perfect. Antigen tests get added on the 23rd of November to boost numbers through December. The variant is "discovered" a few days later by a doctor who claims the symptoms were unusual when they were anything but. I just think the move to Defcon 5 made Ramaphosa shake in his boots having lost most of the big metros in SA and finding out our unemployment rate was hitting 46%. He doesn't understand he is being played. Places like Kayelitsha (area in Cape Town with 1-2m people living in shacks on top of one another) already show what natural immunity looks like no social distancing , no masks , no vaccines and only one wave and that was last year.