South Korea Entering Another Surge in COVID-19 Cases
It was this time last year when the Delta variant surge happened and now it appears the world is entering the BA.5 variant surge this summer:
South Korea’s new coronavirus cases surged to a two-month high of over 37,000 on Tuesday, driven by the spread of a highly contagious new omicron subvariant and deepening concerns over another virus wave.
The country added 37,360 new COVID-19 infections, including 260 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,561,861, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said.
Tuesday’s figure is the highest since May 11, when the daily count came to 43,908 in the aftermath of the omicron wave. It also more than doubled from 19,371 cases logged a week earlier, as the country has seen an upturn in infections from end-June.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but like I have been saying for a long time the daily case rate should not be the number people focus on, it should be hospital rates. With all these tens of thousands of daily cases, according to the article only 74 people are hospitalized. Despite this fact I expect governments to consider returning to the usual protocols of enforced mask wear, social distancing, etc. Already on Okinawa the government there is leaning in that direction.
this BS is never going to end.
It is interesting to note that when the new KDCA chief appointed by Yoon made her first speech she stated she did not agree with Moon’s policies regarding Covid-19.
But as can be clearly seen, she is following the same policies and procedures of the Moon-era KDCA.
So much for the theory put forward by setnaffa and his Church, that right-wing governments are more ‘sensible’ when it comes to Covid-19.
For any government to wean itself from dictator-level powers is almost unheard of…
BTW, the first step in healing is recognizing the problem:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/fauci-admits-covid-19-vaccines-protect-overly-well-infection
“Fauci admits that COVID-19 vaccines do not protect ‘overly well’ against infection”
So that’s exactly the opposite from what he said before and exactly what CH has been saying their pivot point would be…
The vaccines don’t protect “overly well” against infection or uttering weasel words.
Do they protect against severe disease and death?
The Science says:
– the vaccines will give some protection but that fades to single digits within 6 months.
– this applies less and less to strains farther from alpha
– they may start to make covid infection worse at some point when the strain is close enough to be recognized as covid but far enough to make alpha-specific antibodies ineffective (this is theorized but not demonstrated with covid – see failed dengue fever vaccine for a better understanding)
– people in low-risk demographics never had any risk of hospitalization or death anyway. The actual and potential side effects of the vaccine are more dangerous than the disease for the majority of people.
Eventually, they will have to admit the vaccine has issues… but there is a treatment for that.
Fauci will likely be dead by this time.
Takeaways:
– the government can’t stop the Summer Wave so the government has decided doing nothing and not stopping the Summer Wave is better than doing something self-destructive and not stopping the Summer Wave.
Good job, government.
– to show they are Doing Something, the government has decided to lower Booster #2 age from 60 to 50.
That, of course, does essentially nothing. But at least it isn’t harmful to people who don’t want to be harmed. Good job, government.
– New “social distancing measures” (also known as pointless and disruptive restriction) are determined to be ineffective so they won’t be considered unless the fatalities rise.
So government CAN learn from the events of three months ago. Good job, government.
– “During the BA.5 wave, anyone can get the virus, regardless of the person’s vaccination status,” she said, given that the BA.5 subvariant substantially evades antibodies created by the currently available vaccines or by infection.”
And just think, I was a conspiracy theorist tinfoil hat science-denying racist a couple months ago for saying this is exactly where this was going.
Now I am saying this is just the beginning.
Always a good feeling when the lesser experts catch up to me.
– “Chon went on to say that, right now, the government should more actively use antiviral treatments to prevent vulnerable groups from falling into critical condition, rather than counting on the available vaccines to protect them.”
And what antiviral treatment would that be? Would that be Paxlovid, the expensive untested one government, media, and pharmaceutical companies are pushing that doesn’t work and made Fauci’s covid go on for a month due to Paxlovid Rebound? Or is that Ivermectin, the super cheap one that has been used for decades, is safe, and is called horse paste by those pushing the expensive one we know doesn’t work?
– “Moreover, the absence of a health minister still remains a big problem in carrying out flexible pandemic response measures,” Kim said.
“flexible pandemic response measures” mean what exactly? All the tricks have been tried and none of them work.
We know what works… at least before the vaccine. Let the low-risk catch it and become immune in the shortest time possible. This gives a smaller pool of people for covid to continue in and less chance for variants to develop. While this is happening, isolate and care for the high risk demographics. Have media push the things we know help high-risk people become lower-risk people… vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc (at the first sign of symptoms), weight loss, excercise, good eating habits… even if that steps on a lot of corporate interests. Throw away the masks and quit treating them as a health totem so people become aware and responsible for their actions and interactions.
Money Quote:
“Chon Eun-mi, a respiratory disease specialist at Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, viewed that lowering the age limit of the second booster was rather unnecessary.
“It is hard to understand why the government has expanded the fourth shot to people in their 50s when the fatality rate among that age group is near zero,” she said.”
Reality is dragging the government, and maybe some of the vaxtards, kicking and screaming toward admitting the truth to themselves and to the world.
Everyone has been lied to by the evil, ideological, political, and incompetent.
Unless this is resisted, this will continue.
“Get your 2nd booster that we said you wouldn’t need last year and we admitted wouldn’t do much this year.”
https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=332676
My spouse is doing a Captain upgrade at the moment. He told me he was in line at the cafeteria (all airline people) and one guy was saying he used to be a competitive runner, but running more than a mile now makes his heart seem to beat out of his chest (180+). He thinks the vaccine did it. Who knows. There was the other pilot who has had a fib since his booster. Anecdotes may not be evidence but a string of such anecdotes should start to mean something. He looked to be in his early 30s.
From what I’ve heard there is a newer strand of covid that manifests like the stomach flu. Ugh. Hope I don’t catch that one.
I’ve heard that everything is now called covid, including
cancercovid.