To want Boris to watch this video - S.Korean Foreign Minister Coronavirus interview

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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p086q4fx

What a different world..

Yes I would like him to watch this as well, and yes what a different world, a thoughtful clever one in which people matter. No extensive testing here and no lockdown. The worst thing is that if we had an election next week he would probably be voted in again.

Over 260,000 tests done

8,236 confirmed cases

75 deaths

V low mortality rate...

It does have a seriously low mortality rate, much lower than the flu. People are losing their shit over not very much. If you’re old or have underlying health conditions then fair enough but everyone else is being fucking mental.

That’s not true though, in Italy for example the mortality rate, notwithstanding the fact that they won’t know the full number of cases, the mortality rate is very high. 368 just yesterday, churches being used as mortuaries, doctors deciding which patients live or die as they don’t have enough ICU equipment.

Young people on ventilators, yesterday a 47 year old with no underlying health condition died.

Boris and co are testing their herd immunity theory on us at the expense of people who might not die if better measures were in place.

I am a fairly fit and healthy 40 year old. However, my baby has breathing problems, my husband has asthma, my mum has a serious heart condition, my sister has multiple severe autoimmune diseases, my auntie is recovering from sepsis, my uncle is diabetic and my grandparents are in their 90s. Chances are I'll be fine but I love all of these people who might not be. I'll take any precautions necessary.

South Korea are using surveilence to track the movements of anyone with the disease and communicating whereabouts. While they don’t mention names descriptions are often clear enough for people to be recognised and their families hounded. They are scapegoating a specific church and so anyone who is a followeris basically being shunned by their community. There is a real fear on the ground that this will result in even more youth suicides.

Regardless of. Rights and wrongs think testing is key, both to ensuring that people with it isolate and can receive correct monitoring and treatment, to protect the population and to understand its spread etc. Also survivors can play a part in scientific study to help develop treatments.

Italy also apparently suffered from unreliable tests which gave false negatives and therefore infected people freely mingling and new cases not indentied as the person they had been in contact with had been cleared after false. Negative.

Testing - high volume. Quick results and reliable - crack that as well as speed up research to cure/vaccines /treatments, this is what we need.