www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/apr/19/novak-djokovic-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination-tennis
I was quite surprised to see Djokovic turn up as an anti-vaxxer, I always had him pegged as a sensible sort.
ncov.mohw.go.kr/en Daily update from Korea, 13 new cases and 2 deaths. There is a lot of talk about ending social distancing, such as it is (there seems to be very little of it actually going on, restaurants and cafes are full as far as I can see). I just don't want to end up in a Singapore situation where it seems like it's ended and then there's another outbreak. Schools and universities are still suspended, all government institutions (museums and so on) are closed, bars and clubs too. I'm not sure how many people are still working from home, but it seems like that has more or less ended.
Given that the hakwons (after school academies that are on every corner here, children will typically go to at least one a day, sometimes two or three depending on how insane pushy their parents are) never closed here, I'm wondering how much of a difference social distancing even makes compared to testing and tracking. The two big outbreaks here were both linked to churches - one a woman who had obvious symptoms but refused a test and then went to church every day for a week or so, one a church where they sprayed salt water into each other's mouths using a sprayer where they didn't change or sterilise the spray-y part. So these were quite extreme cases of people clearly acting in ways that would obviously pass on symptoms. But I wonder if, as long as tracking and testing continues, social distancing is not particularly necessary?
Of course, the tracking part is far harder in many countries with stricter privacy laws. Here, we don't have any choice - you have corona virus, they're going to track your credit card and check where you've been so they can warn other people. Of course, this has implications for civil liberties which is something of a worry for the future.