North Korea and China, mass irrationality

North Korea and China deny basic scientific rationality https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/the-guardian-view-on-low-covid-vaccination-rates-not-just-north-korea https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-61533715 President Biden with President Yoon Suk-yeol We've offered vaccines, not only to North Korea but to China as well, and we're prepared to do that immediately We've got no response Declined offers from SK and others already, covax Symptomatic cases, + 220,000 = 2.5 million people have been sickened by "fever" Under treatment, 741,000 Medicines, oxygen, electricity, frequent blackouts, fridges Deaths, 66 Nationwide lockdown Claimed successfully kept Covid out by sealing borders State media Herbal tea, gargling salt-water, ibuprofen Kim Jong-un, officials bungled distribution of national medicine reserves Mobilised a million health workers, find people with fevers, quarantine China Dr. Michael Ryan https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/chinas-covid-plan-unsustainable-due-omicron-84778790 We understand why the initial response of China was to try and suppress infections to the maximum level (but) that strategy is not sustainable a suppression-only strategy is not a sustainable way to exit the pandemic for any country Unchecked transmission, North Korea, Eritrea could spur the emergence of new variants Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus zero-COVID, not sustainable WHO is deeply concerned at the risk of further spread in North Korea, Worrying numbers of people with underlying conditions Has asked North Korea to share more data, no response WHO had offered vaccines, medicines, tests and technical support, no response UK Britain reduces its Covid-19 alert level from four to three, Omicron-variant wave of the virus was subsiding. Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 newly classified as variants of concern ONS https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19latestinsights/infections Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices