Korean Medical Group Claims that Government Should Not Release List of Areas Coronavirus Patients Visited
The way I look at this is that by releasing the locations the government is putting pressure on these businesses to disinfect their buildings. After being cleaned these businesses are probably the safe place to go visit afterwards:
Doctors from the Korean Society for Preventive Medicine and the Korean Society of Epidemiology said Monday in a joint statement that the government’s disclosure of places visited by people later diagnosed with the new coronavirus had “zero effect” on public health, saying it only aroused unnecessary anxiety.
The two groups said members of the public shouldn’t worry about contracting the disease by visiting the establishments or passing by areas where infected patients went – as long as those areas have been disinfected.
“The biggest obstacles for overcoming the new coronavirus crisis are fake news and disinformation, excessive anxiety, groundless ‘solutions’ constantly raised by non-experts, stigma against patients and people who contacted them and a lack of voluntary help from people with symptoms of the virus or those who are subject to epidemiological investigations,” read the joint statement.
“In terms of public health, there’s zero effect in shutting down schools and stores near places infected patients visited,” the statement continued. “Such acts only cause unnecessary social costs.”
Joong Ang Ilbo
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indications that it can survive on surfaces for up to 20 days are show it is need to show all the location the infected have been. Korea f’d itself by not stopping all travel from China immediately. New stats seem to indicate once it is loose, which it will get loose, 1 in 5 die and 20% or so require long term hospitalization (how many isolation beds do Korean hospitals have?) Should end well for Korea…and the rest of the world.
Texas humor?
The Flu Pandemic
Copyright 1999 Topmast Production and the Flying Fish Sailors
Chorus: It was the Flu pandemic
And it swept the whole world wide
It caught soldiers and civilians
And they died, died, died!
Whether they’re lying in the trenches
Or lying in their beds
Twenty million of them got it
And they’re dead, dead, dead!
There was a soldier on the battleground in 1917
He turned there to his buddy with his face a ghastly green
He said “We made it both through Passchendaele, the Somme, and Flanders too
But now my number’s up my lad for I’ve gone and caught the flu”
chorus
Well a nurse was in the hospital when Tommy was brought in
When he sneezed she caught a face full that was flying in the wind
She wrote a letter home to England to tell them of her plight
But the letter never got there ’cause the postman too had died
chorus
From the meadow-lands of Somerset and o’er the bounding main
To the shores of old Americay they sung the same refrain
Mothers, fathers, uncles and aunts as well as the odd nephew
Brothers and sisters and bosses and lovers were all got by the flu
chorus
Well a farmer out in China watched his family dropping down
And a businessman in Cairo hit the street without a sound
And an eager little Bolshevik in old Sevastopol couldn’t keep up his grinnin’ at Lenin as Comrade Virus took its toll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fuHNfwPjWs