Critics Call for Yoon Administration to Bring Back Social Distancing Measures
The fact that the fatality rate is now equivalent to the common flu does not seem to register with the critics that want to bring back stringent COVID protocols to slow the spread of the virus. Considering the sinking approval ratings that the Yoon administration has now, bringing back stringent COVID protocols would sink the administration approval rating even more:
The government decided Wednesday to secure an additional 4,000 hospital beds, as well as increase the number of testing centers and the distribution of self-testing kits amid the resurgence of new COVID-19 infections caused by the fast-spreading BA.5 Omicron subvariant.
Korea Times
Some health experts, however, are urging the government to reintroduce social distancing measures at least to some extent before the infections spiral out of control. The country reported 76,402 new infections for Tuesday, including 429 from overseas, bringing the total caseload to 18,937,971, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). The number of critical cases stood at 96, with 12 new COVID-19-related fatalities.
The authorities predicted that the current wave will reach its peak between mid-August and the end of that month, during which the country may see up to 300,000 new infections per day.
Alarmed by the increasing number of infections, the Central Disease Control Headquarters announced Wednesday that it will set up 70 additional temporary testing centers ― 55 in the Seoul metropolitan area and 15 in other regions ― across the nation and expand the distribution of self-testing kits at convenience stores. It also obligated workers at nursing homes to take PCR tests on a weekly basis.
“If you look at the measures announced by the government so far, you can see that there’s no strategy to reduce the current scale of the spread of the virus,” Eom Joong-sik, an infectious disease expert at Gachon University Gil Medical Center said during an interview with local radio CBS.
“Now that the authorities have decided not to use preemptive distancing measures as a response, the virus will simply spread around freely, considering the increase in the number of people moving around and of person-to-person contact, as well as the vaccination rate and the high transmissibility of the variants,” he warned.
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You can’t fix stupid.
There should be accommodation for the karens and nancys. Let them self-distance and let everyone else get back on with living.
Perhaps the government could provide extra boosters and rubber face diapers for those who want to be ultra Safe and Effective?
“Some health experts, however, are urging the government to reintroduce social distancing measures…”
They are not health experts.
It is these “experts” that strung out this “pandemic” for two years and encouraged new strains to develop instead of isolating the vulnerable and letting covid burn out with the vast majority of the population for which it is no risk.
That strategy had been around for over a hundred years.
Before discussing social distancing with these experts, did they ever say the vaccine was “safe and effective”?
If they ever said that, they should be ignored.
Then they should have their teeth broken out with brass knuckles.
LOL, Because it worked sooooo well before. What a bunch of clowns playing to the SCAMDEMIC.