Posted on 05/12/2020 8:32:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin
South Korea is in a race to contain a new coronavirus outbreak in a Seoul party district, prompting a return of social distancing just as the country was easing restrictions. Tracing who was there, however, runs up against the feelings of a gay community that prefers anonymity.
At least 79 cases have been linked to nightclubs and bars that the cluster’s suspected “patient zero” visited the previous weekend, according to South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The 29-year-old patient went barhopping across Seoul’s trendy Itaewon neighborhood days before receiving a covid-19 diagnosis Wednesday. His case was the first new local infection in four days, during which only a handful of imported cases were reported.
The sudden increase in cases dealt a blow to the Seoul government’s confidence about reopening its economy. South Korea has won international acclaim for its early success in containing the epidemic with aggressive contact tracing and widespread testing.
The infection tally from the Itaewon clubs and bars is expected to grow as officials track down thousands of visitors there during the holiday week.
South Korea’s contact tracing officers tracked down detailed pre-quarantine movements of the 29-year-old man and published online the nightlife locations he visited. Those places have been identified as gay bars and clubs by South Korean media outlets...
Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon said in a radio interview Monday that about 3,000 out of more than 5,500 people who visited the Itaewon nightspots during the holiday week either provided false phone numbers or did not answer calls from the officials. For those who could not be reached, Seoul authorities will look into location data from credit card records and security camera footage and will even visit their homes to track them down...
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Ping! Looky at what just now got posted!
The LGBTQ and irresponsibility goes hand in hand.
A sodomite acting as a vector for a deadly disease?
NEVER happened before! Shocked, I tell you. I am shocked!
If this alleged bar-hopper is at fault, wouldn't there have been another person WITH the virus to infect him?
It’s hard to social distance when you’re having anonymous sex with 50-100 people per night.
Fags spreading disease? Imagine that….
The question which howls to be uttered is, How did Hussein Obama disguise himself as a 29 year old Indonesian Queen?
Anywhere you find fags...anywhere on earth...you find deadly viruses.
I'd run a full panel of tests after that.....
>>Tracing who was there, however, runs up against the feelings of a gay community that prefers anonymity.
The Lavender Mafia have always seen themselves as being above the law
If you locked down your population and it was effective, they will get infected later rather than now. Unless you get a vaccine invented in a short period of time which is not happening here.
data from credit card records and security camera footage and will even visit their homes to track them down...
Just the side dish we need.
Where this resurgence occurred is interesting causing one to wonder if it’s message from Our Creator.
That.
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