The Omicron surge in South Korea has resulted in record deaths in the country, reportedly leaving crematoriums and funeral homes struggling to cope. This is despite 87% of the country being double vaccinated and 63% triple vaccinated, with higher proportions among the elderly, raising questions about the efficacy of the vaccines. Sky News has more.
The number of dead has almost doubled since early February, leaving funeral homes and crematoriums struggling to cope.
The Korean Disease Control Agency (KDCA) reported 490,881 cases for Tuesday, the second highest daily tally after it peaked at 621,205 on March 16th.
In all 291 people were reported dead after contracting the illness over the last 24 hours, after daily deaths peaked at 429 last Friday.
At least 13,432 people have died since the pandemic began, from a total of 10,427,247 cases, the KDCA said.
Nearly a fifth of the country’s population of 52 million has now had or is battling the disease, according to the latest figures.
South Korea reacted to the initial outbreak with a strict regime of tracing and quarantine, but with 87% of its population fully vaccinated, they have been scrapped by Seoul, along with social distancing curbs.
Booster shots have been administered to 63% of the country.
Ministers have told the country’s 60 crematoriums to open longer and burn seven bodies a day, up from five.
The 1,136 funeral homes, which can hold around 8,700 bodies, have been instructed to expand their facilities.
Health ministry official Son Young-rae said: “Crematories’ capacity is increasing, but there are still regional differences.”
The Government said the occupancy rate of intensive care beds rose to around 64% on Wednesday, up from 59% two weeks earlier. Health ministry official Park Hyang said the situation, while pressured, was manageable: “The medical system is under substantial pressure, though it is still operated within a manageable range.”
Reported daily infections appear to have peaked, though have not yet started to decline (see graph below).
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Aye, aye, what’s going on here then? I thought DS had put a lid on this.
It was article the involvement of the Helen MacNamara woman that disappeared from here and from the Telegraph.
I reiterate the points I made last time
1) Does this young lady think it would be OK to ban a fan for posting “anti-Lesbian” or “misogynistic” Tweets? If so then isn’t that a bit inconsistent?
2) Would she accept that identity politics in which she is apparently involved in so far as she “campaigns for gay, bisexual and women’s rights” (not sure what rights those people lack) tends to lead to what has happened to her?
I have nothing personally against the young lady and do not believe she should be banned, think the PL and the club are disgraceful etc etc. Just think we need to look at the bigger picture.
I could apply your post just as easily to JK Rowling.
Possibly. I don’t know much about her, other than she has attracted a lot of vitriol for being a “TERF” and has stood her ground. I don’t know what her general views are on freedom of speech and “identity politics”.
I’m certainly not suggesting that this young lady or J K Rowling should be condemned completely, but if their positions are arguably inconsistent neither should they be approved of completely.
Very few people are free speech absolutists – something I think is a negative.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-project-fear-and-the-vaccine-rewrote-the-software-of-the-brain/
The Great Reset is based on resets of our brains.
“the manipulation of human behaviour has now gone beyond an understanding of psychology, sociology or through ‘nudging’, and into the realms of ‘environmental engineering’.”
Well weren’t we just discussing this very topic yesterday? Yes the censorship net is getting ever tighter, our ability to speak freely throttled by the corrupt, authoritarian woketards;
”Last month the European Parliament passed a report calling on the Council to include hate speech and hate crime among so-called “Euro crimes”.
In other words, offensive speech may soon be established as a criminal offence, which all member states must integrate into their own legal systems. However, no clear threshold has been set for what makes speech prosecutable.
According to Maite Pagazaurtundúa of Renew Europe, rapporteur for the report and Member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, “we must protect people who are attacked, persecuted and harassed … always in accordance with the principle of proportionality and guaranteeing freedom of expression for citizens”.
This sounds nice, but it is also dangerously vague.
The Parliament’s report comes as part of a process started by the Commission in 2020. In her inaugural speech, Ursula von der Leyen had stressed the need “to extend the list of EU crimes to all forms of hate crime and hate speech – whether because of race, religion, gender or sexuality”.
This is yet another example of decisions that are being imposed on Europeans top-down.
Would quoting from St. Paul’s 1 Corinthians, where homosexuality is clearly condemned, be banned because it violates somebody’s “dignity”? Would stating that there are only two genders become criminalised? Would saying that Europe should remain a predominantly Christian continent break the law? The questions are not rhetoric.”
https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/02/the-eus-hate-speech-laws-are-an-attack-on-free-speech-itself-this-years-european-elections-may-be-the-last-chance-to-defend-our-rights/
Von der Leyen show us your deleted TXT messages you corrupt Bit@h.
Yesterday I caught a clip from Jeremy Vine (I know) They were asking for positive experiences from the Lockdowns — Many said more time with family etc, but they had a guest on the show on the big screen who was based. He said he enjoyed the tranquility but also learned to ignore the Press and that Lockdown was the UKs biggest psyop. Nobody answered to that. I’m surprised they invited him on when you consider how they treated Bev Turner, and how fast they got shot of Dan Wotton on there in early 2020.
Thanks tof
I don’t know where she gets them from but some of them are crackers
This is a classic too