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> South Korea is basically an island, conducted serendipitous did large scale pandemic drill in December, has a compliant population with mandatory civil servic

> South Korea is basically an island, conducted serendipitous did large scale pandemic drill in December, has a compliant population with mandatory civil service and memory of recent authoritarian government, can mobilize techno-authoritarian surveillance. And they didn't even try to shutdown churches, bars and clubs, while churches consistently have been the largest sources of mass infection. And your may also want to know that literally every single media has been criticizing every single action taken by the government. What an authoritarian government. > Which loops back to S.Korea, why so eager to trust their numbers. Their politics is fairly corrupt. They earned their trust by reporting 7000 cases, taking the risks of huge political disadvantages. All the other first world countries were reluctant on doing that due to the exact opposite motivations. And unless you have some ideas on the modern political landscapes in S.K., I would recommend not to inconsiderately speak up a such fairly strong opinion.

dirtyid 7y ago
I didn't say they were authoritarian government but a large segment of SK population grew up under SK dictatorship which has implications on compliance. Same with Taiwan, Singapore is still single party dictatorship etc. I'm well aware of the domestic SK reaction (negative) around alleged mishandling of the response which is just extra incentive to manipulate test data. Cho Kuk was 6 months ago. Record high unemployment since GFC. Nothing about this administration suggest it's not above fixing stats on top of overall high testing rate especially with the high stakes of underperforming. Almost every SK president has been mired in corruption scandals, many were imprisoned for shady dealings. Why would this be any different? Yeah, they could have found a working formula, but they could also be lying like other first world countries that we know are under reporting deaths via recatorigzation of likely covid deaths to other deaths to depress the impact. SK corruption and transparency index is comparable to France and Italy who already acknowledged doing so. Add the geopolitical layer of western media trying to grasp at any alternative strategy that doesn't involve Chinese style lockdown. Very few reports even mentions SK contact tracing is closer to Chinese techno-authoritarian techniques than not, which ultimately makes SK response not a useful model for these countries until they get desperate. Which is my main point, media is fixating on SK testing and contact tracing when latter is not possible in many first world countries.

dirtyid 7y ago

I didn't say they were authoritarian government but a large segment of SK population grew up under SK dictatorship which has implications on compliance. Same with Taiwan, Singapore is still single party dictatorship etc. I'm well aware of the domestic SK reaction (negative) around alleged mishandling of the response which is just extra incentive to manipulate test data. Cho Kuk was 6 months ago. Record high unemployment since GFC. Nothing about this administration suggest it's not above fixing stats on top of overall high testing rate especially with the high stakes of underperforming. Almost every SK president has been mired in corruption scandals, many were imprisoned for shady dealings. Why would this be any different? Yeah, they could have found a working formula, but they could also be lying like other first world countries that we know are under reporting deaths via recatorigzation of likely covid deaths to other deaths to depress the impact. SK corruption and transparency index is comparable to France and Italy who already acknowledged doing so. Add the geopolitical layer of western media trying to grasp at any alternative strategy that doesn't involve Chinese style lockdown. Very few reports even mentions SK contact tracing is closer to Chinese techno-authoritarian techniques than not, which ultimately makes SK response not a useful model for these countries until they get desperate. Which is my main point, media is fixating on SK testing and contact tracing when latter is not possible in many first world countries.