Chapter 266 – Chapter 266. Coronavirus – 5
Jee-eun tried to watch the TV discussion program on her cell phone, but she thought it would be nice to watch the show while eating something, so she walked over to the refrigerator and brought out a cup of her coffee.
While drinking one of her lattes, Ji-eun sat comfortably on the back of the bed in her comfy clothes and tucked her body halfway under the blanket to watch TV.
In the debate, Lee Woo-fan, a member of the opposition party, spoke into the microphone first.
Lee Woo-fan of the opposition party was a young man in his 30s.
– The current situation is not a word. Yes? The whole country is suffering from Wuhan pneumonia. Couldn’t the incompetent government have created this tragedy? Self-employed people, small business owners, just die. The question is how the government will handle this.
Woofan Lee said.
Then Kim Jwa-Ik received Lee U-Pan’s words.
– Quite the opposite. The government is doing a very competent quarantine. The World Health Organization has praised our country’s rapid quarantine as the world’s best. It would have been a big deal if it had been this previous regime, but because it is the current regime, it is blocking it so well.
Kim Jwa-Ik responded to Lee Woo-Fan’s words with a relaxed tone.
Kim Jwa-Ik was an older, bespectacled man who seemed as unfazed by the discussion as he seemed to be of age.
Also, Lee Woo-pan, who seemed to attack Kim Jwa-ik, looked as ambitious as his young age.
Both had certain logical reasons.
However, from the beginning, the two opinions were sharply divided.
Right from the beginning, Song Ji-eun had a sense of how the discussion between the two would turn out.
Song Ji-eun thought while watching their discussion on her cell phone.
‘Depending on the faction, the words are opposite.’
While Ji-eun was thinking about that, Woo-pan Lee spoke to Jwa-ik Kim.
– What’s blocking it nicely? Excluding China, the source of the Wuhan pneumonia, did you know that our country is currently the world’s number one in confirmed cases?
As Lee Woo-pan swarmed, Kim Jwa-ik took the water bottle placed next to the microphone and drank a glass of water while talking.
– Of course you know. In terms of the number of confirmed cases, Korea is currently second only to China. That’s proof that our country is doing the quarantine that much transparently. Other countries have fewer confirmed cases, but the death rate is strangely high, right? It is only after death that the diagnosis is made, and there are many places that hide some of the confirmed cases that are not dead. However, Korea is doing the work of honestly disclosing confirmed cases and quarantine.
-So, are you saying that only Korea is transparent and all other countries are opaque? No, packaging that the world’s highest number of confirmed cases is transparent? You have to admit your mistakes and try to improve them, what’s the point of just rationalizing them?
Kim Jwa-ik said that our country’s epidemic prevention and control is being carried out very transparently.
Song Ji-eun also saw a similar argument in an article sometime ago.
Other countries have tested hundreds to thousands of people, but our country has tested tens of thousands of people for the safety of the people, so there are a lot of confirmed cases.
However, because the test was conducted on a large number of people, even so, the number of confirmed cases was high anyway.
Song Ji-eun was confused.
‘Who’s right?’
Lee Woo-fan focused on the overwhelming number of confirmed cases in our country.
Kim Jwa-Ik focused on the fact that the number of confirmed cases in our country is due to testing that many people.
Both of the arguments presented by each other were correct.
It is true that our country has a large number of confirmed cases, and it is also true that many people are subject to testing.
However, both Lee Woo-pan and Kim Jwa-ik refuted the other’s opinion, saying that they were always wrong.
When Lee Woo-pan asked whether it was transparent that there were many infected people, Kim Jwa-ik replied.
– I have never rationalized it. The current government’s quarantine policy has no flaws in speed or systematicity. However, due to the fact that a religious group has recently started preaching, didn’t more than half of the preachers come from that side alone? The government did a really good job. It’s just that the spread was strong on the part of the religious group, so the government received complaints instead. In a way, the government was out of luck.
When Kim Jwa-Ik said that the government was scolded by the people because of a religious group, Lee Woo-fan said, “It is unlucky.
– No, that religious group is the victim. I am an atheist, but would the situation have gone this far if the entry ban had been properly done in the first place? 20,000 or 70,000 people enter endlessly every week without blocking, wouldn’t it be more strange that the virus does not spread in this state?
The views of Kim Jwa-Ik and Lee Woo-Pan on religious groups were also diametrically opposed.
Kim Jwa-ik said that religious groups caused the virus to spread enormously, and that the government suffered because of these religious groups.
On the contrary, Lee Woo-fan said that it was as if a religious group had become a victim because of the government.
Kim Jwa-ik called the government the victim, saying that the virus spread because of this religious group, and people blame the government rather than the religious group.
When Lee Woo-pan brought up the question of who the victim was and the entry ban, Kim Jwa-ik took the word again.
– You’re talking like a ban on entry is the answer? Quite the opposite. It is a myth that an entry ban is helpful. If the border is closed, quarantine, tracking, and management become impossible due to abnormal entry due to smuggling, which may rather cause the spread of COVID-19.
Kim Jwa-ik was negative about the entry ban.
Then Liu Pan raised his voice about it once more.
– But should I stop it for now? You can sneak in, so you won’t stop it? Then all the store owners should leave the store doors wide open at night and only install CCTVs before entering the house, right? I’m going to quarantine, so everyone come in? Shouldn’t it be stopped first?
– Tell your story with evidence. What about countries that have banned entry, Iran, Italy? Doesn’t corona come in like that? Now that too is a mess. If you look at the entry ban, it’s very political. It is not because the effect of the entry ban has been proven, but because the entry ban is not in place, the country is in danger, by creating fake news like this to inspire public dissatisfaction and increase approval ratings.
-You seem to treat unfavorable news as fake news and only favorable news as real news? Even though Iran banned entry, many confirmed cases came out and only talk about Iran, but in Vietnam, all 16 confirmed cases have been cured. That’s 0 deaths. The number of countries allowing entry bans from China is gradually increasing in 62 countries. Is this fake news too? There are Iran that did not go well because of the entry ban, but how would you see the case of Vietnam, which blocked the corona at the source by effectively banning entry?
Woofan Lee said.
Both sides were also tense in the theory of the effect of the entry ban.
What Kim Jwa-Ik said was that the premise itself that the entry ban was effective was meaningless, since even if Iran and others imposed an entry ban, it had no effect.
Lee Woo-fan’s words were that the entry ban would definitely have an effect since Vietnam and other countries had banned entry and prevented it with zero deaths.
If there are success stories and unsuccessful ones, which one should you believe?
Song Ji-eun was confused while watching the discussion between Kim Jwa-ik and Lee Woo-pan.
In the meantime, Kim Jwa-ik spoke.
– It has nothing to do with being favorable news. In fact, fake news is instigating and fabricating. You are only encouraging fear in the people with completely unfounded words.
– It’s not to promote fear, it’s actually a scary situation. We defended with 4 confirmed cases during SARS and 145 confirmed cases during MERS. But what about this time? 500 people, 1,000 people, it just goes up endlessly, do you see the situation in which the lives of the people are endangered is a situation that encourages fear right now?
– Of course, that number is correct. However, it is not simply a matter of numerical comparison. As I said at the beginning, the problem of religious organizations is inserted here. A large proportion of the confirmed cases are concentrated in one religious group, and the number of infections increased significantly at that secret meeting. Therefore, it is very useless to make comparisons with simple numbers. Comparisons based on numbers alone are nonsensical. It sounds like you can’t communicate well.
Lee Woo-fan said that the problem is that the number of confirmed cases is increasing.
Kim Jwa-ik said that the number of confirmed cases was meaningless because there was a religious assembly in the middle of it, so the number of confirmed cases increased significantly there.
The two sides still faced each other without backing down.
In this situation, Lee Woo-pan opened his eyes again and spoke to Kim Jwa-ik.
– You said that you cannot be banned from entering the country, but rather, Korea is now being banned from entering the country. All over the world What is this? You say you can’t? But what happens? What is this worldwide disgrace? If you go abroad just because you are a Korean, your passport will be taken away and you will be quarantined like detention for 14 days. A riot by foreigners breaks out around the quarantine facility. Now, Korea has been treated by the world almost on the same level as China, the origin of the virus.
-Stop talking about entry bans. Didn’t I tell you that it’s all political? Well, as many of you know, the opposition party would have instigated that even if the ruling party banned entry or not, they could not do anything about it. What if you were banned from entering the country? Then, since we have to block even Koreans from China, isn’t it trying to incite public sentiment by claiming that the government is abandoning the people? No matter which way you go, whether it’s an entry ban or not, in the end, isn’t the opposition party just attacking the ruling party?
Again, the opinions diverged here.
Lee Woo-fan refuted that Korea did not ban entry, but as other countries banned entry, he refuted that the entry ban was ineffective, and spoke about the loss of the people’s global status.
Kim Jwa-Ik said that even if an entry ban was imposed, nationals who had been in China would not be able to enter because of the entry ban, so in case of an entry ban, the right-wing side would abandon the people.
Yiufan spoke again.
-No. I don’t see it that way. Either way, the government could have been attacked by opposition forces. However, if the entry was banned, at least there would have been fewer confirmed cases among the people. If you’re going to be attacked the same anyway, wouldn’t it be better to save the people a little more? And, while not banning entry, Daegu blocked express buses. You don’t get the virus from China, but do you get the virus spread by your own people?
-As I said before, the effectiveness of the entry ban has not been verified, and it can cause side effects. We are doing our best to start disinfection work now. Kits are also being replaced with the latest ones, and relief items such as masks are being distributed to affected areas. For confirmed corona patients, not only will the test fee be waived, but we are focusing our efforts on preventing the spread as well as providing financial support. As I said, I hope you will not use it politically by holding the current ruling party accountable.
The content of the entry ban came up again in common this time.
Song Ji-eun was suddenly curious.
Does the entry ban really work? Or is it really ineffective?
Kim Jwa-Ik said that smuggling would prevent tracking and the virus could spread helplessly.
Song Ji-eun saw that Lee Woo-pan and Kim Jwa-ik put forward such opposite arguments, and felt regret that time only flowed in one direction.
Who is right?
I thought how nice it would be if I could see it with my own eyes.
If there is a parallel world, if you ban entry in one world and don’t in one world, compare it and use it as an indicator when the next disease occurs, fewer people will be infected and people’s lives will be saved. It seemed possible.
