#Newspaper
Why are Koreaโs Covid-19 death rates so low?
//South Korea has the dubious distinction of suffering the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections after China โ but can also boast the lowest death ratio among countries with significant numbers of cases.
//Amid the outbreak, neighboring China has used a โGreat Wallโ strategy to cordon off entire cities. South Korea has stuck to a liberal playbook: even its most affected city, Daegu, has not been isolated. This makes Seoulโs apparent success in the struggle against Covid-19 a potential benchmark for other affected democracies.
//Key factors include a robust national health service; prior experience of virus outbreaks and related preparations; aggressive execution of testing, isolation and treatment protocols, fully backed by the law โ and two incidences of good fortune.
//Buttressing prior experience with SARS and MERS.
//As a result, officials were fully prepared
//Telephone consulting services, drive-through test centers and thermal cameras โ which, set up in buildings and public places to detect fever, swiftly came online.
//A triage system ensures only those with severe symptoms are admitted to oxygenated, low-pressure wards. Home quarantine with access to medical consulting is widely employed.
//Those with symptoms were triaged as priority testees; once they were cleared, tests were conducted on those who showed no symptoms to ensure they were not latent carriers.
//Case tracking was done via CCTV data mining and credit use patterns.
//Quarantinesโฆ perhaps even more critical to the low death rate was the activation of early treatment.
//โWhen you look at the age and the distribution of confirmed cases in Shincheonji you see high portion of those in the 20s and 30s,โ said Kim. โTherefore, the fatality rate in this cohort is low.โ
//โIf you look at the population distribution compared to China, we have a higher portion of younger age groups,โ
//some postulated that the Korean diet โ heavy on such supposedly immune-boosting ingredients as garlic โ might offer the populace superior in-body defenses.
//Neighbor Japan has lower overall numbers, but a higher percentage of fatalities.
Full Article: Asia Times, (11-Mar)
https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/why-are-koreas-covid-19-death-rates-so-low/
#Korea #Coronavirus #Japan
Why are Koreaโs Covid-19 death rates so low?
//South Korea has the dubious distinction of suffering the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections after China โ but can also boast the lowest death ratio among countries with significant numbers of cases.
//Amid the outbreak, neighboring China has used a โGreat Wallโ strategy to cordon off entire cities. South Korea has stuck to a liberal playbook: even its most affected city, Daegu, has not been isolated. This makes Seoulโs apparent success in the struggle against Covid-19 a potential benchmark for other affected democracies.
//Key factors include a robust national health service; prior experience of virus outbreaks and related preparations; aggressive execution of testing, isolation and treatment protocols, fully backed by the law โ and two incidences of good fortune.
//Buttressing prior experience with SARS and MERS.
//As a result, officials were fully prepared
//Telephone consulting services, drive-through test centers and thermal cameras โ which, set up in buildings and public places to detect fever, swiftly came online.
//A triage system ensures only those with severe symptoms are admitted to oxygenated, low-pressure wards. Home quarantine with access to medical consulting is widely employed.
//Those with symptoms were triaged as priority testees; once they were cleared, tests were conducted on those who showed no symptoms to ensure they were not latent carriers.
//Case tracking was done via CCTV data mining and credit use patterns.
//Quarantinesโฆ perhaps even more critical to the low death rate was the activation of early treatment.
//โWhen you look at the age and the distribution of confirmed cases in Shincheonji you see high portion of those in the 20s and 30s,โ said Kim. โTherefore, the fatality rate in this cohort is low.โ
//โIf you look at the population distribution compared to China, we have a higher portion of younger age groups,โ
//some postulated that the Korean diet โ heavy on such supposedly immune-boosting ingredients as garlic โ might offer the populace superior in-body defenses.
//Neighbor Japan has lower overall numbers, but a higher percentage of fatalities.
Full Article: Asia Times, (11-Mar)
https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/why-are-koreas-covid-19-death-rates-so-low/
#Korea #Coronavirus #Japan
Asia Times
Why are Koreaโs Covid-19 death rates so low?
South Korea has the dubious distinction of suffering the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections after China โ but can also boast the lowest death ratio among countries with significant โฆ
#Newspaper
A Protestant pastor in South Korea alleged that the "Wuhan pneumonia" pandemic was โThe punishment on China by God for its suppression of religionโ
#Korea #Wuhan Pneumonia #New Corona Virus # Protestantism #Christianity #China #Suppression of religion #Sermon
(24-Feb) As indicated from some probes, there were some Protestant pastors of large-scale churches in Korea who preached about the Covid-19, so-called โWuhan Pneumoniaโ as in the context of conspiracy theories, like โThe judgement on China by Godโ, or delivered speeches based on unfounded beliefs or being politically biased.
By using the keywords, in terms of โSermons on New Corona Virusโ, some relevant video clips could be found on YouTube on 21 Feb 2020. The key message of those video clips was to associate the new corona virus with suppression of Protestantism in China.
In a sermon entitled <<The road to the end of pandemic>>, which was delivered on 9 Feb by Chi Long Chu, a pastor of Yanggu Church in Changwon, Gyeongsangnam-do, asserted that it was a regrettable act of the Chinese government to suppress God, expelled missionaries, and bombed the churches. The outbreak of the new corona virus was a retribution for such shameful act. The pastor Lee Kim Ho of Daegu Church, in which there were 51 members diagnosed with such virus within one single day on 20 Feb, said that the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, was a sinister in the eyes of God, who had implemented such atrocious policies. Quoting from the Bible, pastor Chi said inflicting people with pandemic back then was a disciplinary action enforced by God, and that is why it is now happening in China.
On top of blaming the Chinese President Xi, pastor Cheung Hin Chik of the Pure Gospel Church in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do also treated this pandemic engulfing Korea as the ammunition to heap criticism on the Korean government. On 9th of this month, Pastor Cheung stated in his sermon that the pandemic has worried him and the ordinary people should be treated fairly. It has now become a war against the virus. The newly on-board Prime Minister of Korea, Chung Sye-kyun, was also embroiled in such offensive remarks, in which his first names [Sye-Kyn] have similar pronunciation as the โBacteriaโ in Korean.
As more than half of the patients diagnosed with the new corona virus in Daegu are members of Shincheonji Church of Jesus, there have been serious public concerns about closing all the churches to curb the spread of virus so as to avoid it being aggravated by the mass preaching.
Koon Chun Hau, the chief editor of the Christian media <<News and Joy>> specialized in tracking the churches, has been monitoring the coronavirus related content that existed in the sermon and the result was telling. It is not uncommon among big or small-sized churches that the sermons are politically tilted without religious essence. From the secular perspective and neglecting any content about the judgement by God or curses, such sermon can have a profound effect on society considering the social and spiritual influence by the pastors, any misunderstanding could pose much risks in the society as a whole.
Source: Facebook, hani.co.kr
https://bit.ly/2QmGZsL
https://bit.ly/2x7dYu1
Further reading:
South Korea sect leader to face probe over deaths
https://bbc.in/2QqAl4J
#Korea #Coronavirus #Church #Xi #Protestant
A Protestant pastor in South Korea alleged that the "Wuhan pneumonia" pandemic was โThe punishment on China by God for its suppression of religionโ
#Korea #Wuhan Pneumonia #New Corona Virus # Protestantism #Christianity #China #Suppression of religion #Sermon
(24-Feb) As indicated from some probes, there were some Protestant pastors of large-scale churches in Korea who preached about the Covid-19, so-called โWuhan Pneumoniaโ as in the context of conspiracy theories, like โThe judgement on China by Godโ, or delivered speeches based on unfounded beliefs or being politically biased.
By using the keywords, in terms of โSermons on New Corona Virusโ, some relevant video clips could be found on YouTube on 21 Feb 2020. The key message of those video clips was to associate the new corona virus with suppression of Protestantism in China.
In a sermon entitled <<The road to the end of pandemic>>, which was delivered on 9 Feb by Chi Long Chu, a pastor of Yanggu Church in Changwon, Gyeongsangnam-do, asserted that it was a regrettable act of the Chinese government to suppress God, expelled missionaries, and bombed the churches. The outbreak of the new corona virus was a retribution for such shameful act. The pastor Lee Kim Ho of Daegu Church, in which there were 51 members diagnosed with such virus within one single day on 20 Feb, said that the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, was a sinister in the eyes of God, who had implemented such atrocious policies. Quoting from the Bible, pastor Chi said inflicting people with pandemic back then was a disciplinary action enforced by God, and that is why it is now happening in China.
On top of blaming the Chinese President Xi, pastor Cheung Hin Chik of the Pure Gospel Church in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do also treated this pandemic engulfing Korea as the ammunition to heap criticism on the Korean government. On 9th of this month, Pastor Cheung stated in his sermon that the pandemic has worried him and the ordinary people should be treated fairly. It has now become a war against the virus. The newly on-board Prime Minister of Korea, Chung Sye-kyun, was also embroiled in such offensive remarks, in which his first names [Sye-Kyn] have similar pronunciation as the โBacteriaโ in Korean.
As more than half of the patients diagnosed with the new corona virus in Daegu are members of Shincheonji Church of Jesus, there have been serious public concerns about closing all the churches to curb the spread of virus so as to avoid it being aggravated by the mass preaching.
Koon Chun Hau, the chief editor of the Christian media <<News and Joy>> specialized in tracking the churches, has been monitoring the coronavirus related content that existed in the sermon and the result was telling. It is not uncommon among big or small-sized churches that the sermons are politically tilted without religious essence. From the secular perspective and neglecting any content about the judgement by God or curses, such sermon can have a profound effect on society considering the social and spiritual influence by the pastors, any misunderstanding could pose much risks in the society as a whole.
Source: Facebook, hani.co.kr
https://bit.ly/2QmGZsL
https://bit.ly/2x7dYu1
Further reading:
South Korea sect leader to face probe over deaths
https://bbc.in/2QqAl4J
#Korea #Coronavirus #Church #Xi #Protestant
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์ฝ๋ก๋19๊ฐ โํ๋๋ ์ฌํโ?โฆ์ผ๋ถ ๊ฐ์ ๊ต ๋ชฉ์ฌ๋ค ํฉ๋น ์ฃผ์ฅ
์ค๊ตญ์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ต ํ์์ด ์ฝ๋ก๋19 ์์ธ์ด๋ผ๋ ์๋ชจ๋ก ์ ์ฝ๋ก๋19 ๊ตญ๋ด ์ ํ, ์ ๋ถ์ ๋ํ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ ์์ฌ๋ก ํ์ฉํ๊ธฐ๋
#Newspaper
"Best confirmed case" in Korea๏น Write down the details of daily life so that not a single person was infected by him
(5 Mar) There are some unethical behaviors conducted by patients who were diagnosed with Coronavirus. When they knew they were tested positive, they still decided not to quarantine. As a result, they spread the virus to hundreds or even thousands of innocent people.
Today, the Korean media reported the case of an acclaimed "the best confirmed case". He was diagnosed and was identified as the "1129" patient in Incheon, South Korea, at the end of last month.
Unwilling to bother others, when he suspected that he was sick at the end of January, he carefully wrote down his daily life in detail for 25 consecutive days, writing a 38-page record. He also minimized going out, avoiding contact with other people, eventually succeeded without infecting others.
The patient, according to the report, was originally a tourism commentator. As early as January 23-26, he has provided on-site explanations for tourists from mainland China in tourist attractions such as Changdeokgung Palace and Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul. Later on February 1, he began to feel sore throat and neck pain, and his chest was a little stuffy. He began to suspect that he was infected by coronavirus. In the attempt to avoid affecting others, he immediately took a vacation for the day to stay home to rest. He also carefully recorded the symptoms and treatment each day.
In the early days, he had consulted the health center, but since he did not have a fever, and had no record of traveling to China, the health center did not perform any coronavirus test.
Even though he went out to visit the doctor several times in early February, he would only go to the surrounding hospital. In addition, in order to minimize the contact with others, he avoided taking public transportation such as buses and subways. For the places that can be travelled on foot, he would walk it. Only for places that might take more than 1 hour of walking then he will take the taxi.
He would record every detail of the itinerary-"January 24, around 12:10 am on foot to Daohe Station ... Take the subway at about 12:30, get off at Jongno 3 Street Station and transfer to No. 3 line..."
Although he only lived with his mother, he was worried about the health of his elderly mother. When he was home, he would strictly follow the health management policy of the Department of Disease Management. To wear sanitary gloves and masks at all times, and thoroughly disinfected the tablewares after used.
As a result, even if he tested negative for the first time for the virus, his second test came back positive on February 23. But because he suspected that he had been infected for the past half month and was being cautious, not only did he prevent the virus from transmitting to his mother, the epidemic prevention department could trace the 23 people who had contacted him through his diary in a timely manner. As a result, none of them were infected, and the last line of defense was kept.
It is no wonder that Incheon used his experience as a role model to produce a poster saying, "If all suspected patients act like him, we can minimize the chance of spreading the virus around."
Source of report:
https://news.joins.com/article/23721284
Source: Facebook
https://bit.ly/2WmrTqI
Further reading:
Why are Koreaโs Covid-19 death rates so low?
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18611
#Korea #SuspectedPatient #Model
"Best confirmed case" in Korea๏น Write down the details of daily life so that not a single person was infected by him
(5 Mar) There are some unethical behaviors conducted by patients who were diagnosed with Coronavirus. When they knew they were tested positive, they still decided not to quarantine. As a result, they spread the virus to hundreds or even thousands of innocent people.
Today, the Korean media reported the case of an acclaimed "the best confirmed case". He was diagnosed and was identified as the "1129" patient in Incheon, South Korea, at the end of last month.
Unwilling to bother others, when he suspected that he was sick at the end of January, he carefully wrote down his daily life in detail for 25 consecutive days, writing a 38-page record. He also minimized going out, avoiding contact with other people, eventually succeeded without infecting others.
The patient, according to the report, was originally a tourism commentator. As early as January 23-26, he has provided on-site explanations for tourists from mainland China in tourist attractions such as Changdeokgung Palace and Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul. Later on February 1, he began to feel sore throat and neck pain, and his chest was a little stuffy. He began to suspect that he was infected by coronavirus. In the attempt to avoid affecting others, he immediately took a vacation for the day to stay home to rest. He also carefully recorded the symptoms and treatment each day.
In the early days, he had consulted the health center, but since he did not have a fever, and had no record of traveling to China, the health center did not perform any coronavirus test.
Even though he went out to visit the doctor several times in early February, he would only go to the surrounding hospital. In addition, in order to minimize the contact with others, he avoided taking public transportation such as buses and subways. For the places that can be travelled on foot, he would walk it. Only for places that might take more than 1 hour of walking then he will take the taxi.
He would record every detail of the itinerary-"January 24, around 12:10 am on foot to Daohe Station ... Take the subway at about 12:30, get off at Jongno 3 Street Station and transfer to No. 3 line..."
Although he only lived with his mother, he was worried about the health of his elderly mother. When he was home, he would strictly follow the health management policy of the Department of Disease Management. To wear sanitary gloves and masks at all times, and thoroughly disinfected the tablewares after used.
As a result, even if he tested negative for the first time for the virus, his second test came back positive on February 23. But because he suspected that he had been infected for the past half month and was being cautious, not only did he prevent the virus from transmitting to his mother, the epidemic prevention department could trace the 23 people who had contacted him through his diary in a timely manner. As a result, none of them were infected, and the last line of defense was kept.
It is no wonder that Incheon used his experience as a role model to produce a poster saying, "If all suspected patients act like him, we can minimize the chance of spreading the virus around."
Source of report:
https://news.joins.com/article/23721284
Source: Facebook
https://bit.ly/2WmrTqI
Further reading:
Why are Koreaโs Covid-19 death rates so low?
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18611
#Korea #SuspectedPatient #Model
์ค์์ผ๋ณด
์ธ์ฒ ํ ํ์ง์์ 38์ชฝ ๊ผผ๊ผผ์ผ์งยทยทยท์ฒซ ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ "๋ฌด๊ณ ํ ํผํด ์๊ฒ"
A์จ๋ ์ฝ๋ก๋19 ๊ฐ์ผ ์ฆ์์ ์๊ฐํ ๋ค ์ฆ์ธ์ ๋์ ๋ฑ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ๋ค. ์ธ์ฒ์ ๊ด๊ณ์๋ "A์จ๊ฐ ์๋ฐฉ์์น์ ์ ์ง์ผ ๊ทธ์ ์ด๋จธ๋์ ์ ์ด์ 23๋ช
์ด ๋ชจ๋ ์์ฑ ํ์ ์ ๋ฐ์๋ค"๋ฉฐ "์ญํ์กฐ์ฌ๋ฅผ ํ ๋๋ A์จ๊ฐ ๋จ๊ธด ์ผ์ง ๋๋ถ์ ๋์ ํ์
์ด ์ ์ํ๊ณ ์ ํํ๊ฒ ์ด๋ค์ ธ ์ธ์ฒ์์ ๋ฐ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋์ํ ์ ์์๋ค"๊ณ ๋งํ๋ค. A์จ๋ ์ง๋๋ฌ
#NetizensVoice
1987 South Korea vs. 2020 Hong Kong
(26 Mar) I have never thought the situation in Hong Kong right now is worse than the 1987 Korea.
In the movie "1987: When the Day Comes" (2017 South Korean political thriller film based on a true story), during the police interrogation, the bad cops killed a student during waterboarding and tried to cover up the truth afterwards. In the movie/true events: the prosecutor insisted to preform an autopsy of the student but the police would not let it happen; a tough journalist who stayed in the bathroom all night waiting for a chance to ask a question but the police refused to disclose any details; a doctor who were not corrupted by the large sum of bribe money but the police would not let him report the cause of death. It was many nameless citizens who never give up and eventually led the information to the journalists and news media. As a result, the government immediately arrested the bad cops. Historically, the series of events pushed the government to give up the low rank officers in hope for peace.
Right now in Hong Kong, the government has executed the legal procedures to help cover the identity of the police who shot the Indonesian female journalist and many more violence attack toward Hong Kong protesters. When the police name was made public, the government/Hong Kong police arrested the Hong Kong District Chairman who shared the news on social media. The situation in Hong Kong right now is worse than Korea in 1987. The government and the police are even more determined and shameless than the "militant", "brave" and "ruthless" government of totalitarian Korea.
Beside confronting the Chinese Communist Party, Hongkongers are facing an unique state of affairs that no one has ever encountered before. As the China-US trade war continues and with the Chinese Communist Party's cover-up of the #WuhanPneumonia epidemic, which has led to global pandemic. When will the world united and turn against the Communist Party of China? If not this time, then wait until when?
Totalitarian governments can't stop their lies. In movie "1987: When the Day Comes", a character says that "the only weapon we have left is the truth. Only the truth can bring down the regime".The former Czech Republic President and a famous writer, Vaclav Harwell's simple but extraordinary idea about "living in truth" is even more true in this age that full of cover-up/fake news. Please use the little freedom of speech you have left, and if you haven't seen the "Against the Right series: June Democratic Uprising in Korea" series of movies, please watch it while the epidemic is raging. History always repeats itself.
The Hong Kong Communist Party/Chinese Communist Party has a belief stating that political power comes from the "barrel of a gun" (as a metaphor of political power comes from violence) and if it is the case, let them fight for the world power.
#MidnightGetAroundTheFirewall
#1987WhenTheDayComes
Source: Facebook
https://bit.ly/340WKLs
#Totalitarian #FakeNews #Korea #HongKongProtest #Coronavirus #CCP #FreedomOfSpeech
1987 South Korea vs. 2020 Hong Kong
(26 Mar) I have never thought the situation in Hong Kong right now is worse than the 1987 Korea.
In the movie "1987: When the Day Comes" (2017 South Korean political thriller film based on a true story), during the police interrogation, the bad cops killed a student during waterboarding and tried to cover up the truth afterwards. In the movie/true events: the prosecutor insisted to preform an autopsy of the student but the police would not let it happen; a tough journalist who stayed in the bathroom all night waiting for a chance to ask a question but the police refused to disclose any details; a doctor who were not corrupted by the large sum of bribe money but the police would not let him report the cause of death. It was many nameless citizens who never give up and eventually led the information to the journalists and news media. As a result, the government immediately arrested the bad cops. Historically, the series of events pushed the government to give up the low rank officers in hope for peace.
Right now in Hong Kong, the government has executed the legal procedures to help cover the identity of the police who shot the Indonesian female journalist and many more violence attack toward Hong Kong protesters. When the police name was made public, the government/Hong Kong police arrested the Hong Kong District Chairman who shared the news on social media. The situation in Hong Kong right now is worse than Korea in 1987. The government and the police are even more determined and shameless than the "militant", "brave" and "ruthless" government of totalitarian Korea.
Beside confronting the Chinese Communist Party, Hongkongers are facing an unique state of affairs that no one has ever encountered before. As the China-US trade war continues and with the Chinese Communist Party's cover-up of the #WuhanPneumonia epidemic, which has led to global pandemic. When will the world united and turn against the Communist Party of China? If not this time, then wait until when?
Totalitarian governments can't stop their lies. In movie "1987: When the Day Comes", a character says that "the only weapon we have left is the truth. Only the truth can bring down the regime".The former Czech Republic President and a famous writer, Vaclav Harwell's simple but extraordinary idea about "living in truth" is even more true in this age that full of cover-up/fake news. Please use the little freedom of speech you have left, and if you haven't seen the "Against the Right series: June Democratic Uprising in Korea" series of movies, please watch it while the epidemic is raging. History always repeats itself.
The Hong Kong Communist Party/Chinese Communist Party has a belief stating that political power comes from the "barrel of a gun" (as a metaphor of political power comes from violence) and if it is the case, let them fight for the world power.
#MidnightGetAroundTheFirewall
#1987WhenTheDayComes
Source: Facebook
https://bit.ly/340WKLs
#Totalitarian #FakeNews #Korea #HongKongProtest #Coronavirus #CCP #FreedomOfSpeech