South Korea Sees Record Growth in COVID Cases and Hospitalizations
It is going to be interesting to see if the Moon administration will continue its living with COVID strategy with the various record highs in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths:
South Korea’s new coronavirus cases fell below 4,000 on Thursday, a day after hitting an all time-high of 4,115. But critical cases and deaths climbed to fresh highs, fueling worries about the virus spread ahead of another pandemic winter.
The country reported 3,938 new COVID-19 cases, including 3,917 local infections, raising the total caseload to 429,002, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).
Critically ill patients hit an all-time high of 612, up 26 from the previous record set a day earlier. The same figure averaged 498 for the seven days ending Sunday.
The country added 39 more deaths from COVID-19, the highest number since the start of the fourth wave of the pandemic in July, bringing the death toll to 3,401, with the fatality rate standing at 0.79 percent.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but I think the numbers will eventually go down because my theory is that the lockdowns mitigated people who conduct high risk activity in places like bars and Noraebangs from getting sick. With the restrictions lifted I think these people conducting high risk activities are getting sick. Eventually the growth in case numbers from this high risk population will be reduced due to prior infection and thus an overall reduction in case numbers. South Korea is getting bad press right now but give it a few weeks and I think eventually the cases will go down.
I would be very interested in learning who was critical and who was dying…
Do not see this as callous. I am sad at anyone’s death; but we need to be realistic about the current reason for stealing our liberty.
How old were they? People over 80 pass away suddenly, with or without covid. If suddenly young people are dying, it might not be the covid at all.
What comorbidities did they have? Were they morbidly obese? Did they suffer from heart, lung, or immune system issues? If a person with stage 4 cancer gets covid and dies, was it the terminal cancer or the covid that killed ’em? Same with numerous other “end-stage” diseases. And the NY Times has listed many gunshot victims as covid deaths, so there’s that.
And happily for me, my cancers are all in remission/gone, so today is a day of Thanksgiving for at least my family and friends.
May all of us be thankful for what we have received.
Colorado reinstated its mask mandate policy yesterday, with limited compliance this time around.
I live in the mountains and close to the Denver area. In Boulder, they never stopped wearing the masks…going on two years now.
It was probably all a scam… they knew “living with covid” in the same conditions that caused a wave last year would cause a wave this year.
Now they can lock things down even tighter and yell, “Told you so!”
Of course we can blame bars and restaurants and young people… but it seems that covers less than 4% of the cases (last I checked).
Nobody goes clubbing when they are sick… but they do go home to their family, sit in a nursing homes, dare not miss church, go to a hospital, and stay in prison… and all the places people actually spread covid while small business is blamed.
If Korea was smart, they would tell high-risk people to self-isolate and tell low-risk people to hurry up and catch it so they are no longer a risk.
Liz, I love the mask!
Along with a hoodie, I can git me sum o them Loowee Veeton bags fo free.
The masks have made it hard to identify low level crime.
Normally, if you see a shady looking fellow hiding his face, you know he is up to something and you can take action.
Now the shady looking fellows blend right in.
Need to be like Japan and deploy Ivermectin. But since Japan did it I guess Korea can’t. Studies proving effectiveness of Ivermectin: https://c19ivermectin.com/
Ivermectin in Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1GF0H9V_1g&t=180s
I know well over 80 people, mostly Koreans living on Texas, who have caught the ‘rona and survived. Some were avid mask afficianos before and after. Some before only, some after only. Still only 4 hospitalizations, all in people over 60 years old with either heart stents (63, male), recovering from a stroke (73, male), recovering from throat cancer (68, male), or “just wore out” from a house full of guests (66, female).
Now the WHO in the UK is reporting a “horrific” new variant. And they’re callingbit “unexpected”. It’s on both Fox and CNN.
Frankly, I think these WHO buffoons all took underwater basket-weaving or ran a numbers game in Philly instead of studying medicine. They show little to no understanding of how viruses constantly adapt.
The WHO have lied to us too many times to ever be believable again. This is more about forcing mail-in ballots to be used instead of voters having to show their IDs than it is about stopping a super Sino sinus infection..
The “vaccines” don’t work agaist the original or any of the alleged variants (there are no tests for these variants(. Although some claim it reduces the COVID-19 symptoms, so do others claim ivermection and/or HCQ+Zinc+Antibiotic do the same.
Follow your own doctor’s advice and stay healthy.
But maybe, just maybe, ask them why you need a vaccine (and boosters) that doesn’t block you getting sick or passing it on to others. And since we know the masks most people wear are useless, ask them about that, too.
And consider the common cold is a family of less-severe coronaviruses. And the mutagenic properties present in most cold medicines are why there is no vaccine for that.
Have a wonderful, disease-free holiday!
Set, the “new” variant mutated in people who were fully vaccinated. That seems to indicate the variant is completely immune from the vaccine action. Looks like the vaccinated are in trouble….