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South Korea released propaganda, which you bought, and are still buying years after seeing empirically that it makes no sense. Australia implemented absolutely

South Korea released propaganda, which you bought, and are still buying years after seeing empirically that it makes no sense. Australia implemented absolutely dystopian contact tracing decisions, countrywide lockdowns, left its citizens abroad, and it's still clear that every single person in that country is going to get COVID. It will be endemic, just like it is everywhere else. Even worse, the country has by-and-large taken a vaccine which gives them resistance to a spike protein that is not the most common in today's COVID cases. Recent (simian) experimentation has shown that the Omicron booster is not effective for previously vaccinated individuals. You will not see long term differences in outcomes between Canada, the US, and countries like South Korea or Australia. Our measures did not work, do not work, and are exclusively security theater. Countries which 'have things under control' are either extremely ruthless in their lockdown and travel approach, and have deferred pain, or are lying on the numbers.

JSavageOne 5y ago
I don't think it's fair to dismiss South Korea's results as propaganda. They do indeed have serious contact tracing. I'm not sure how it is now, but when I was in Korea in March-June 2020, there was a website where anyone could see literally every positive COVID case (anonymized), and everywhere they'd been over the last 2 weeks. They obtain this information via credit card transactions and such because they know that that is more reliable than personal testimony's. Although this would be a non-starter in the U.S due to privacy concerns, I don't deny that this was probably effective. At the same time I imagine cases were drastically underreported because testing positive would result in your whole office shutting down, potentially getting one fired. So there's no incentive to get tested unless you have no choice.

JSavageOne 5y ago

I don't think it's fair to dismiss South Korea's results as propaganda. They do indeed have serious contact tracing. I'm not sure how it is now, but when I was in Korea in March-June 2020, there was a website where anyone could see literally every positive COVID case (anonymized), and everywhere they'd been over the last 2 weeks. They obtain this information via credit card transactions and such because they know that that is more reliable than personal testimony's. Although this would be a non-starter in the U.S due to privacy concerns, I don't deny that this was probably effective. At the same time I imagine cases were drastically underreported because testing positive would result in your whole office shutting down, potentially getting one fired. So there's no incentive to get tested unless you have no choice.