If you can laugh at this, then you know what's really going on.
To be clear, the healthcare providers & frontline workers deserve all the credit we can give. But Moon Jae-in & the Blue House–the takers of the credit? That's another story.#coronavirushttps://t.co/PJdtSQjwvU
South Koreans prepare to leave Kuwait South Korean nationals living in Kuwait undergo departure processes on April 10, 2020 (local time), as they await the arrival of a special chartered flight that will transport them home, in this photo provided by Seoul’s foreign ministry. (Yonhap)
Before people begin panicking these cases are likely caused by inaccurate testing proclaiming them virus free. There has been many complaints about inaccurate tests from around the world:
Medical staff at Dongsan Hospital in Daegu, 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, put on protective gear as they get ready to treat novel coronavirus patients on April 9, 2020. (Yonhap)
More than 90 people who fully recovered from the novel coronavirus have tested positive for COVID-19 again, health authorities here said Friday.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said a total of 91 people had tested positive for the new coronavirus after they were released from quarantine.
KCDC Director-General Jeong Eun-kyeong said a viral test on such cases is currently under way, with the results expected at least two weeks later, unlike regular swab tests used to test for COVID-19 that shows results in a relatively shorter time.
As I have long said, I did not expect a cost sharing deal to get done before the April 15th Korean parliamentary elections and it appears that will be the case:
U.S. President Donald Trump has rejected South Korea’s offer to raise its contribution to shared defense costs by at least 13 percent, a news report said Friday.
Trump made the decision last week after consultations with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Reuters said, quoting unidentified current and former U.S. officials.
Esper made a phone call to South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo earlier this week to press Seoul to quickly agree to much higher contributions, it said.
You can read more at the link, but politically there was no way the ruling party would agree to a major increase in defense spending. By the Trump administration turning down the modest increase, the Moon administration can go into the election saying they tried, but the Trump administration is too greedy and that is why all you Korean employees that work on U.S. bases are laid off.
The next decision by the Moon administration will be if they want to wait until after the U.S. Presidential election to make a deal.
GS Caltex drone deliveryGS Caltex demonstrates drone delivery at its logistics center in Incheon, 40 kilometers west of Seoul, on April 8, 2020. The photo, provided by the company, shows government officials and researchers from a state-run lab that helped develop the drone.(Yonhap)
Craig Frank, 48, of Vermillion, S.D., teamed up with his daughter, Anastasia Frank, 16, to sew cloth masks as part of a volunteer initiative for the military community at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, Wednesday, April 8, 2020.
As U.S. troops everywhere are increasingly required to wear masks to ward off coronavirus, a group of volunteers has begun churning out cloth coverings to make up for shortages nearly two months into the pandemic in South Korea.
The volunteers, including civilians, military spouses and even some soldiers, set up an assembly line operation at the arts and crafts center Tuesday on Camp Humphreys, which is the main Army garrison on the divided peninsula.
The morale, welfare and recreation division has provided more than 500 yards of fabric, thread, elastic and sewing machines, said Kelly Schmidt, one of the main organizers and the wife of Eighth Army Command Sgt. Maj. Jason Schmidt.
An obstetrician has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison for killing a baby who “burst out crying” during abortion procedures.
The Seoul Central District Court on Friday convicted the doctor, 65, surnamed Yun, of killing a 34-week-old baby and suspended Yun’s medical license for three years.
“Medical staff who participated in the operation have consistently said they heard the baby crying,” a three-judge panel of the court said in a statement. “It is clear that the doctor killed the baby, who was born alive.”
You can read more at the link, but this got me thinking what happens in a similar situation in the U.S. From FactCheck.org I found out that a similar situation in the U.S. would be prosecutable. However, what abortion doctors can do is deny medical care to keep the child alive:
A spokesman for Sasse told us the bill is aimed at “passive” situations in which there’s a “backing away” from providing medical interventions for a baby born alive. He cited the testimony of an OB-GYN doctor in the Gosnell case who said that if a baby were born alive as a result of an abortion procedure, the baby would “eventually pass.”
