My buddy JW warned: the government can take away whatever it gives, and he was right: South Korea May Backtrack on Living-with-COVID as Cases Grow. Excerpt:
South Korea may not further ease its coronavirus restrictions, the country’s top public health official warned Thursday, amid a spike in COVID-19 cases.
South Korea began easing virus curbs in November in the first of the three-phase “living with COVID-19” scheme. It had planned to move to the second phase in mid-December after a two-week evaluation period.
Jeong Eun-kyeong, commissioner of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, said it may be difficult to move to the second phase of the scheme if new cases continue to grow.
The country reported 2,520 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total caseload to 388,351, the KDCA said.
Thursday’s tally marked a slight hike from the previous day’s 2,425, which marked the first time in six days that daily infections exceeded 2,400.
With over 80% of the population now vaccinated to some degree (and where does that end, what with second vaccinations, third vaccinations, boosters, etc.), how is it possible that more people are getting infected and/or infection rates are increasing? Could it be that—gasp—vaccines aren't effective? You know what? I'll wait for the damn pill, which will apparently be just as effective as the vaccine. Meanwhile, governments need to stop fixating on new cases and start looking at death statistics, which are exceedingly low.
Yep, you nailed it. We are jumping through all these hoops over a virus with an exceedingly low kill rate. What's really f'd up is that all those destructive measures have done very little to stop the spread. And now a vaccinated population is still not safe from the virus? C'mon, just let it run its course and get this over with. Life will go on for the survivors and the rest were going to die of something anyway. That's the way it's always worked.
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