What a mess. Coronavirus 2019 is running rampant in Korea. Who knows if they have it or not. I'm becoming more and more tempted to go to a hospital and get myself tested. Just to be 100% certain that I don't have it. I have a cough, but no aching muscles (well, only because I played basketball for 40 minutes when I'm usually a totally sedentary person ... and I know that's what it is because my body only ached after that day), no mucus in my cough, no fever, no other symptoms that resemble pneumonia. BUT I don't just stay inside and watch the $h¡t show that has come to Korea. I have gone out so that I don't go completely crazy, and symptoms don't show for a maximum of two weeks ... so that's two weeks one could be going about their daily life without knowing. Two weeks you are in close contact with friends, family, coworkers and the occasional random stranger. Two weeks you could be passing it to any and everyone you meet.
Using Corona Live, I can see all the key people. (Headlines altered for grammar.)
"Confirmed case. Prison officer, who was in contact with 82 prisoners, is put in an isolation cell without getting any medical checks." ~23:00 on 27 Feb [The headline doesn't mention 54 colleagues the officer was also in contact with.]
"Alarm in National Security. Confirmed cases amount to twenty-five in military base" ~22:00 on 27 Feb
"Corona 19 confirmed case. Blood donation nurse who visited Goyang, Paju police station and 'emergency' military unit" ~19:00 on 27 Feb
"29-year-old female, a confirmed patient, visited Mapo District Office" Also ~19:00 on 27 Feb
"Female in 20s in Nowon District (northern Seoul) has been confirmed. Her boyfriend took CPA (Certified Public Accountant) test [This is a national test, so people from all over the nation could have been there.] on the 23rd" ~13:00 on 27 Feb
"[Songpa District] Delivery guy (Baemin Food Delivery) is confirmed to have Coronavirus" Before 23:00 on 26 FebPlus, all the docs who are now getting it and the hospitals that already had cases of it, like Eunpyeong Seongmo Hospital in Seoul. I wonder if it came in through that 9,000ish-member cult church. The one that was getting a lot of the blame, Patient #31, couldn't have known that she had it when she went to a church "service" that was also attended by another thousand members, but ... now we're 1,766 cases in with another 25,568 people waiting for their test results to come out. With the headlines above, I imagine that it could rise more. A lot more. People are only being tested if they show symptoms or believe they were in contact with a publicised case. But what about those who don't have symptoms that actually do have it? The ones who are unknowingly spreading it? Maybe we should all just get tested. Too bad the labs will probably take too long with a population of 51,629,512 (2018 figure from the National Statistical Office) if it's taking this long to test the 64,886 suspected cases (39,318 were negative).
Two of those church members were diagnosed recently and quickly were discharged. So quickly that I wonder if there was a problem in the test. Either they didn't have it (false positive) or they still have it (false negative). In the worse case of the two, they could be continuing to spread it, even at this moment (okay, not at THIS moment since it's after 2 am).
Surreal times.
*~Lili~*
