| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
earthquakez
Joined: 10 Nov 2010
|
 Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:05 pm Post subject: South Korea makes sure SK medic exposed to Ebola is looked |
 |
|
after by waygooks instead of South Koreans.
Take a gander at this news story that is linked from the BBC website: www.bbc.co.uk
A South Korean medic exposed to Ebola has been flown to Berlin and their identity kept a secret. This is from www.dw.de/potential-ebola-case-being-monitored-in-berlin
As those of us familiar with the attitudes prevalent in South Korea know, the point of this would have been to make sure that foreigners do any dirty work connected with Ebola and the possibility of infection. South Koreans are apparently 'superior' but they want foreigners to take responsibility when they find the going gets tough.
The official excuse would be that they can't look after an Ebola case in South Korea but we all know that this is the Korean nightmare - a dirty disease from dirty foreigners entering the South Korean homeland.
I remember full well the absolutely hysterical and offensive to foreigners overreaction to swine flu when I worked in Korea, even more offensive for the fact that Koreans swapping saliva on chopsticks regularly and not washing their hands or covering their mouths coughing and sneezing were well enough to spread 'swine flu' without demonising foreigners.
So you can imagine the reaction at official level when they heard about the South Korean medic. South Korea has hospitals that can treat Ebola just as hospitals that have never had cases before in the USA and UK have done so but of course South Korea is 'exceptional'.
If you can't get the story from my link, go to the bbc website and type in 'South Korean exposed to Ebola treated in Germany'. Or go to www.dw.de
Last edited by earthquakez on Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:40 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
earthquakez
Joined: 10 Nov 2010
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Stan Rogers
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
|
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:59 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| What an incredibly pathetic thing to be mad about. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
earthquakez
Joined: 10 Nov 2010
|
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:12 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Obviously Yonhap count on the fact that most South Koreans are woefully uninformed about Ebola to the point where morons banning Africans from a pub regardless of the fact they had never lived in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria nor had they visited there, was seen as justifiable.
Yonhap is twisting it there. Ebola has mutated in Africa so that the Zaire strain for example is different from others that have appeared.
The six to ten days mentioned by the Yonhap article is a flat out attempt to lead readers away from the fact that Ebola can often have an incubation rate of 21 days and some experts on the virus have warned the period could even be longer.
Of course we hear in the world media that you have to be symptomatic to infect others but you can be symptomatic without showing it by vomiting, for example. I know plenty of Africans in London and I've heard about Ebola and Marburg and other deadly viruses for years from people who have travelled back to Africa and heard firsthand accounts before the current outbreak.
You don't have to have obvious symptoms to be infectious. You just need to be feverish in the way flu sufferers are, for example. You can have an increasing temperature and potentially infect others.
All the emphasis on vomiting and overt symptoms is designed to calm people down. The virus also stays in semen for around 3 months if you survive Ebola.
A classic case of 'Nothing to see here, move along' by Yonhap. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
earthquakez
Joined: 10 Nov 2010
|
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:16 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| optik404 wrote: |
| What an incredibly pathetic thing to be mad about. |
What a silly little person you are judging by the usual posts you make which are simply slagging off others' posts. Now go and play on the Han Expressway. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
|
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:16 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| You want some whiskey with those bitters? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
earthquakez
Joined: 10 Nov 2010
|
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:17 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| You can choose to believe what you like from the media, especially the South Korean media sunshine. Would you like some TB bacteria with your Korean Kool Aid? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
|
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:27 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| earthquakez wrote: |
| optik404 wrote: |
| What an incredibly pathetic thing to be mad about. |
What a silly little person you are judging by the usual posts you make which are simply slagging off others' posts. Now go and play on the Han Expressway. |
Your entire post is based on assumptions. South Korea probably did this because they don't want to work on dirty foreigners. Sure you have nothing to back up your claims but who cares! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Scorpion
Joined: 15 Apr 2012
|
| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:45 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Stan Rogers wrote: |
No big deal.
The tests turned up negative. |
He'd clearly been eating his kimchi. |
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
