I follow T.K. of AAK on Twitter, who has been talking about Shincheonji for a couple weeks now. I didn't realize that this stuff wasn't out in the general narrative until I was talking to a friend.
- The infected Shincheonji members then spread coronavirus by sharing closed-off spaces, refusing to be quarantined, and hiding their membership. Although Patient No. 31 ran a high fever, she attended two Shincheonji services which held more than a thousand worshippers each, in addition to attending a wedding and a conference for a pyramid scheme.
She visited a clinic after being involved in a minor traffic accident, but ignored the repeated recommendations by the doctors to receive testing for COVID-19. In other cases, a self-identified Shincheonji follower who came to a hospital complaining of high fever ran off during examination when the doctors informed her she may be quarantined. One woman who donated her liver to her mother for transplant belatedly admitted she belonged to Shincheonji when her fever would not drop after the surgery. (Both cases led to a temporary shutdown of the hospitals involved, making the public health response to the coronavirus that much more difficult.) In a tragicomic instance, one of the Daegu city officials in charge of infectious disease control was revealed to be a Shincheonji follower only after a diagnosis confirmed he was infected with coronavirus.
Just wait. Trump has clearly not yet been willing to accept the potential magnitude of covid19. Maybe now that we're 5 minutes away from an official market "correction", it's starting to sink in. When his approval ratings start tanking, he's going to blame anyone and everyone for coronavirus. It was engineered by the dems! In China, with Xi! Seth Rich's fingerprints are all over this. Mueller, too, why not? The tenacity of these people to somehow attempt shitting on democrats while they themselves contribute to making us more vulnerable to this thing. Boggles the mind. I have no faith that covid19 will provide a cultural cleansing or rid us of affluence politics. It might end up being the first time a pandemic doesn't push a population towards unification.
It feels like 2005 to me. People were largely fine with Bush because he told us to go shopping, he gave us someone to blame and he Accomplished the Mission. And then the Superdome became Thunderdome and all of a sudden the country started to realize that the emperor had no clothes. The Republican Party has been pretty much owning the libs for three and a half years. That's been their agenda. That and claiming they don't work for Russia and that everything terrible happening in government is a liberal conspiracy because unless you're a farmer it hasn't been directly fucking with your life. This is kind of the first real instance where the Trump administration has to govern and everyone capable of governing has left the building, either voluntarily or forceably. Not to be alarmist, but this is pretty much what happened to Venezuela, albeit on a much greater scale: when you trade competence for fealty you simply lack the ability to deal with challenges.
'nother LOL. Katrina was the reason my mom shopped helicopter rescue rates (~$25k, btw) while Harvey was still walloping Houston. Trump & co. managed to not repeat the same mistake twice. I was pleased. But yup, I mean, judging by the absolutely ignorant remarks he made last night about having covid19 totally under control, this is gonna be super botched. It's already been, people just haven't come around to it yet. Action was required, like, last month. It's apparently going to take tragedy for people to turn away from this tweet of a man. Again, even then, I'm not sure this will do it. Edit: It begins:Superdome became Thunderdome
WASHINGTON — Federal health employees interacted with Americans quarantined for possible exposure to the coronavirus without proper medical training or protective gear, then scattered into the general population, according to a government whistle-blower.