COVID Case Numbers Continue Steady Drop Below 50,000 as South Korea Drops Social Distancing Restrictions
A much needed drop in restriction for South Koreans has finally come:
![Shoppers enjoy Namdaemun Market in central Seoul on Monday after 757 days of Covid-19 social distancing restriction ended. [JANG JIN-YOUNG]](https://i0.wp.com/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2022/04/18/293ce1c5-5410-4a27-b082-b63cffcc92f6.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
Korea’s daily Covid-19 cases dropped below 50,000 on Monday, the first day of freedom from two years of social distancing regulations.
Joong Ang Ilbo
The country reported 47,743 new Covid-19 cases Monday, raising the total caseload to 16,353,495, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). This was the first time in 68 days for cases to go below 50,000, since Feb. 9 when infections started to soar.
Along with the continued drop in new infections, the number of Covid-19 patients in critical condition totaled 850 as of Sunday midnight, down by 43 from the previous day.
There were 132 new deaths from Covid-19.
You can read more at the link.
But they’re gonna take forever to drop the mask mandate. Like the US (by which I really mean US blue states), they can’t be as forward-thinking as the UK on this matter.
I don’t really wear a mask.
I keep it on my chin with the top right at mouth level.
The fact that someone will say something if I have no mask at all, but will say nothing if I have one ineffectively worn but displayed for all to see, reminds me this has nothing to do with masks or covid or health.
It only has something to do with demonstrating my compliance with nonsensical dictates.
This has only made me hate government and lose respect for people more.
If you still go on about a failed vaccine or still wear a worthless mask, you are a piece of shìt as a person who keeps the rest of us from having nice things.
Don’t forget to get your booster.
Bonus: The same people who won’t shut the fùck up about saving the planet from semi-mythical global warming are the same ones saying nothing about billions of worthless masks choking our environment.
It’s all about continuing to buy Chinese face diapers. That’s a out all they really sell these days.
Well, outside of areas supplying 10 percent to the big guy…
My spouse is in the airport at San Jose and says no one is wearing masks. If they aren’t wearing masks in the heart of Silicon Valley, it is over. (knock on wood)
Sounds like the Navy may be hiding something:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10731537/Three-Navy-sailors-dead-unrelated-incidents-USS-George-Washington.html
Setnaffa, everyone missed the real story.
“The Navy deployed a psychiatric specialists to the ship to handle the trauma of three deaths so close together”
Hopefully the enemy spaces out their kills so they don’t cross the So Close Together threshold.
Maybe this is actually a test… and anybody who talks to the psychiatric specialist gets put in the brig so they aren’t a danger to other crewmembers while the paperwork goes through.
But it isn’t.
The military doesn’t even have an expectation for everyone to be mentally hard.
Which is why it took a trillion dollars to replace the Taliban with the Taliban… but a better-armed Taliban.
As for what the Navy is hiding, it certainly isn’t dìcks on chicks… or was it tits on men. That probably depends on your politics.
It has become clear due to a number of whistleblowers that “we aren’t seeing any vaccine side effects in the military” is because they are hiding vaccine side effects in the military.
Who knows why these people died so close together. But they shouldn’t have.
During that massive outbreak of covid on Captain Crozier’s ship only one person died (and that was later, not on board).
@setnaffa, reading the article what I guess happened was a rash of suicides and thus mental health counselors being brought to the ship. The military has seen a surge in suicides:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/03/22/pentagon-orders-review-military-suicide/7130231001/
My opinion is that the COVID protocols probably plays a large part in the increasing suicide rate in the military.
GI, that was my thought too. And frankly, that is a failure of the ships NCOs. They’re supposed to be managing these young people and keeping them busy, motivated, trained, and on the ball.
I’m not suggesting anyone should be fired or prosecuted; but the Navy needs to do a better job of taking care of these young people.
Monitoring their social media interactions (without censorship or comment), trained personnel should have been able to see changes. Same with the daily interactions with the team.
Heck, most private companies do a better job.
Two of the three verified as suicide.