South Korea to Ditch “Living with COVID” Strategy After New Record High COVID Cases
More restrictions are coming soon on the Korean public. Remember when the government said they didn’t care if daily COVID cases reached 10,000 they would not end the Living with COVID strategy? Well that did not age well:
South Korea’s new coronavirus cases and critically ill patients surged to fresh record highs Wednesday, with the government tipped to restore toughest virus curbs to contain the spread of infections.
The country added 7,850 new COVID-19 infections, including 7,828 local infections, raising the cumulative caseload to 536,495, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).
Wednesday’s figure broke the previous record high of 7,174 cases last Wednesday. Daily virus cases have hovered in the range of 4,000-7,000 since early this month, weeks after the country began to ease the distancing rules from Nov. 1.
The number of critically ill patients hit an all-time high of 964, up from the previous record high of 906 on Tuesday.
Deaths from the virus rose by 70, bringing the total to 4,456. The record high death toll was 94 a day earlier. The fatality rate stood at 0.83 percent.
Yonhap
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South Koreans voted to become inmates in their own gulags.
They’ll need to fix it on their own. God-willing with the ballet box, not the fourth one.
And if they don’t, the norks will have to place from which to buy Choco-pies. Nor will anyone else; but the chaebol families will be just fine.
C’est la vie.
They’re still overreacting, I see.
Dear Comrade Setnaffova.
You clearly need to get professional psychiatric help.
I think I liked it better back before there was a “safe and effective” vaccine.
… and The Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a W̶o̶m̶a̶n̶ Government.
So here is a question.
Starting saturday, the nighttime entertainment industry has to shut down at 9pm. This is almost all small business.
Of course big business like department stores can be packed until 9pm.
Ok. So… small business has to use the Covid Passport system to ensure everyone (with anyone) is vaccinated.
So the question is with this 9pm lockdown… which is the case:
1. This is a completely arbitrary bullshìt rule designed to kill small business. Even more so when the people in the hospital and dying are not the demographic that frequents nighttime entertainment. Nor do people with symptoms go out at night.
2. The vaccines are a steaming pile of shìt and it doesn’t matter how many passports or vaccines or booster there are because the vaccinated still catch covid, spread covid, end up in the hospital with covid, and die of covid.
Well? Which is it?
What? Both, you say?