Posted on 03/12/2020 8:00:05 AM PDT by C19fan
"Being Called a Cult Is One Thing, Being Blamed for an Epidemic Is Quite Another,” by Raphael Rashid (Op-Ed, nytimes.com, March 9), which describes the Shincheonji Church of Jesus as being scapegoated in South Korea for political purposes, is misleading.
From an early stage, the Korean government has set key principles to combat Covid-19: Be quick, transparent and pre-emptive.
Unlike other countries where only patients showing symptoms have been tested, we chose to test everyone who has been in close contact with confirmed cases. Rather than waiting for patients to come in, we pursued and tracked down possible patients to prevent spread within the community.
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They aren’t a multicultural society like the US is.
I mean you can’t do a damn thing in this country anymore without somebody calling you a racist or a bigot.
Korea and Taiwan have been burnt multiple times by diseases origination from China. They leaned hard win lessons.
Meanwhile Pelosi is calling people ‘racist’ and ‘xenophobes’ for even mentioning the origin of this.
The ongoing lack of testing has made, and will make, things a lot worse than they should be. You can’t fight an enemy if you don’t know where he is.
Total BS. Korea could have prevented this nonsense by stopping infected Chinese from traveling to Korea. Even the cult members were first infected by the 1000 Chinese visiting their church. The communist wanna be president Moon of SK is all out engaged in PR to blame the cult rather than his policy of appeasing Xi.
Compare the rates in Italy where the government did f-all to South Korea.
As of March 11, Korea has 7,755 confirmed cases of Covid-19. But this is the result of having tested 214,640 cases. It is also the main factor behind our low mortality rate of 0.77 percent, which is far below the 3.4 percent global average."
The US is following the Italian trajectory because we are not tracking and testing like the Koreans?
Korean colleagues tell me US is doing a great job containing the WuFlu. Majority think their government is doing a crappy job as they refuse to restrict Chinese from coming into Korea.
Yes, the US is somewhere between Iran and Italy in its response so far. Combination of nonchalance and defiance.
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That’s a racist and bigoted comment, showing callous disregard for other people’s neurotic tendency to accuse others of their own racist and bigoted attitude. {sarc}
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