Lee Jae-myung Calls for Increased COVID Restrictions in South Korea
I don’t think this is a smart political decision because Koreans I think have hit their limit on lockdowns and restrictions:
Ruling Democratic Party presidential nominee Lee Jae-myung asked the government on Tuesday to immediately tighten social distancing rules to curb the surge in coronavirus infections.
Lee issued the call in an “emergency statement” read by a spokesperson at DP headquarters, saying “it is time to take special measures beyond an all-out response.”
“Regrettably, we need to pause the return to normal temporarily,” he said, referring to the loosening of virus restrictions that began under a government initiative last month.
Lee said small business owners should be compensated in advance for the losses they are likely to suffer under the tightened rules.
Details of the strengthened measures should be determined in consultation with health authorities and experts, the spokesperson, Park Chan-dae, said.
Yonhap
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where will the money come from to compensate the small business owners? Oh by taxing those same people. What a dumbass!
But Flyingsword, there is no graft without filtering the money through unelected bureaucracies!
Who’s going to fund their off-the-books real estate deals?
You need to keep your eye on the big picture and ignore trivial bourgeoisie concepts like “private property”, “right and wrong”, and government workers being “public servants” (instead of neo-yangban).
“Compensating” small business owners is a stepping stone to the neo-feudalist crony capitalist corporate communism that the world is moving to.
(That was a mouthful)
So a small business gets a million or so every quarter? That is compensation? For what? Halving your customers and doing your best to scare off the rest while forcing you to close at an arbitrary time.
And if you are a nighttime business targeting the 8pm to 4am crowd, that is beyond insulting… as you have to close at 9 or 10… which, oddly, is the time most Big Business closes.
If course it is by design as Korea moves to destroy the night time entertainment culture… a wise macroeconomic decision.
But killing all small business is also a goal… a goal shared by Big Business and the politicians they own.
So the answer is to kill small private business and replace their income with subsistence subsidy. Why, that sounds like… communism.
Politicians used to fight each other… but they always looked after Korea.
No longer.
Koreans, demand Korea first.
Or it won’t be.