S Korea reports 668 new coronavirus cases; highest daily count in 3 months

New variant spreading ?

With all the variants, anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers, its looking like this pandemic is going to last not 1 or 2 years, but maybe 5 to 10 years.

New variant spreading ?

YES. SK is a radical Christianity country and those cults celebrated Easter. What can possibly go wrong when people cram together and shout and sing?

GoodlucktoyouToday  12:36 pm JST

New variant spreading ?

YES. SK is a radical Christianity country and those cults celebrated Easter. What can possibly go wrong when people cram together and shout and sing?

Your comment is disrespectful for every Christian in Korea and in the world,you are free to believe or not what you want but this doesn't put you in a position to bash a religion which has millions of believers in the globe.

And to remain in topic I would say that Korea like every country in this planet is facing another wave of this Covid,the only thing that can be done is to vaccinate as many people as possible and try not to gather people en masse.

What can possibly go wrong when people cram together and shout and sing?

probably the same thing when people insist on congregating at restaurants , holding business meetings face to face, visiting cherry blossums and not social distancing even during a pandemic

Virus is endemic and here to stay. Shows how lockdown etc will never eradicate this.

Wakarimasen

Virus is endemic and here to stay. Shows how lockdown etc will never eradicate this.

Exactly. What was supposed to be 15 days to "flatten the curve" is now a year and counting, and the lockdown countries have nothing to show for it. There is no correlation between lockdown policy and virus results, if any it looks more like the opposite.

At the same time, understanding and treatment of the virus have improved hugely, so these draconian policies are pure power politics now.

YES. SK is a radical Christianity country and those cults celebrated Easter. What can possibly go wrong when people cram together and shout and sing?

Korean Christianity is kind of kooky, and at times cultish, but it's not exactly radical. They're not bombing train stations or anything.

Love driving into Seoul in the evening from the airports during December and seeing all the crosses lit up.

Prayer will help them overcome if in their own way. Plus they all wear masks, and the country is spotless. They do not litter like in Japan.

Surprised to hear how their vaccine numbers are.

@Goodlucktoyou

New variant spreading ?YES. SK is a radical Christianity country and those cults celebrated Easter. What can possibly go wrong when people cram together and shout and sing?

My impression is that Christianity in S Korea is closer to shamanism. Some pastors are de facto shamans, exorcising devils and curing patients with mysterious power. Actually, there are many Christian prayer houses in mountains, as the former Christian SK president Lee Myung-bak allowed it. No private houses could be built in mountains except Buddhist temples. Only shamans pray in remote mountains in S. Korea.

Buddhism was imported in Korea, about 1,500 years ago, but it was mixed with shamanism. Christianity just followed it.

Yes. Those shamanistic Christians have been major sources of the COVID-19 outbreak. They are extremely gregarious.

@Kyakusenbi_Arimasu

Love driving into Seoul in the evening from the airports during December and seeing all the crosses lit up.

Prayer will help them overcome if in their own way. Plus they all wear masks, and the country is spotless. They do not litter like in Japan.

You obviously haven't been in Seoul for long. The intersection near where I used to live was always littered with cigarette butts.