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Originally Posted by jfman
That's, of course, an opinion. Efforts in China and South Korea indicate otherwise. The rest of the world, including the United States, is at least trying.
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Little wonder. It's been fairly embarrassing to date.
That said, standing there every single day saying we aren't trying and we aren't counting won't last long. The public expects the state to protect it.
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China didn't lock down their whole country. They didn't need to as it was relatively contained to certain areas and the people there would comply with Government instructions.
South Korea didn't have a complete lockdown. They relied on self-isolation and very thorough and what might be seen by some draconian, tracing of contacts.
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There are also 130 quarantine officers like Kim Jeong-hwan, who focus on minute details to track potential patients. The 28-year-old public health doctor spends his whole working days remotely checking up on people who have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.
Kim, who is doing military service, is one of a small army of quarantine officers who track the movements of any potential carriers of the disease by phone, app or the signals sent by cell phones or the black boxes in automobiles. Their goal: To trace all the contacts people may have had, so they too can be tested.
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Underlining their determination, quarantine officers told Reuters they located five cases after a worker in a small town caught the virus and went to work in a “coin karaoke,” a bar where a machine lets people sing a few songs for a dollar. At first, the woman, who was showing symptoms, did not tell the officers where she worked, local officials told Reuters. But they put the puzzle together after questioning her acquaintances and obtaining GPS locations on her mobile device.
“Now, quarantine officers have maximum power and authority,” said Kim Jun-geun, an official at Changnyeong County who collects information from quarantine officers.
South Korea’s government also uses location data to customize mass messages sent to cellphones, notifying every resident when and where a nearby case is confirmed.
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The issue has NEVER been about WHETHER further restrictions are put in place, but WHEN.
Different countries have different approaches, and not all US states are taking the same measures.