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earthquakez
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 Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:05 pm Post subject: South Korea makes sure SK medic exposed to Ebola is looked |
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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
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earthquakez
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optik404
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| What an incredibly pathetic thing to be mad about. |
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earthquakez
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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earthquakez
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| 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. |
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northway
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| You want some whiskey with those bitters? |
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earthquakez
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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| 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? |
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optik404
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| earthquakez wrote: |
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| 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! |
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Scorpion
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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No big deal.
The tests turned up negative. |
He'd clearly been eating his kimchi. |
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cj1976
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't see how this is anything but good for everyone in Korea. The Berlin unit is probably better equipped and trained to deal with a very high risk condition. I'd rather it wasn't placed in the hands of Koreans, who are much more likely to screw up. |
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earthquakez
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| optik404 wrote: |
| 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! |
Why am I not surprised you can't read? "They don't want to work on dirty foreigners"? What's in your local water?
It's clear I pointed out that when a South Korean medic, yes he or she is a South Korean, has had potentially infectious contact with Ebola they are flown to Europe, not home. For all their much vaunted this and that including hospitals, South Korean officials don't want to take responsibility for own of their own.
So the South Korean is being passed on to a German hospital instead of being flown home like the other non South Korean medical personnel who have been suspected of having contracted Ebola or who actually have it.
There is a persistent and unapologetic xenophobia that holds bad things come from outside and threaten Korea which was so embarrassingly evident in the whole swine flu hysteria.
Before that it was the near riots and spitting on and harassment of (to say the least) white and black foreigners unlucky enough to be around the so called demonstrations when 'crazy cow' beef was discovered in Korea. Before that it was the blaming of ordinary foreigners for the IMF crisis.
And it explains why HIV is seen as something that foreigners have rather than those Korean married men hooking up with prostitutes on a regular basis including with the company credit card on nights out with co-workers, and those downlow Korean men dawdling noticeably in public toilets.
It doesn't need to be spelt out just why a hint of Ebola must be treated as something to be spirited away to a non Korean country.
If Korea couldn't handle swine flu without going into meltdown all the while refusing to change the culture's filthy 'hygiene' with any sense of self-criticism or taking off responsibility, then of course there will be and is the huge stigma associated with Ebola. Koreans won't handle it but the foreigners can.
No matter how much western countries' populations are worried about Ebola, their countries are looking after their own people who may have contracted it or may in the future. This involves repatriating those with symptoms and using the countries' own hospitals.
This is what grown-up societies do while South Korea wants to conceal its own possible cases and expect that foreigners do the hard work of diagnosing and curing them. Of course South Korea is exceptional and cannot deal with such realities. |
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atwood
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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This story has been on the TV news the last couple of nights.
As to why the patient was being treated in Berlin:
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| "The person wasn't flown to South Korea because the Korean government asked Europe step in," said Dr. Frank Bergmann, who oversees the treatment of highly infectious patients at Charite hospital. "First of all it's good from a transportation point of view to come here and secondly it's better for the person's anonymity to be treated here in Europe." |
I guess you can question why the patient needs anonymity, but if I had ebola I'd rather be treated in Germany than Korea. |
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rainman3277
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| Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 8:35 pm Post subject: Re: South Korea makes sure SK medic exposed to Ebola is look |
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| earthquakez wrote: |
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 |
Can almost smell your hatred for Koreans through the computer screen it's so potent. |
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Chaparrastique
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| Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 8:42 pm Post subject: Re: South Korea makes sure SK medic exposed to Ebola is look |
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| rainman3277 wrote: |
| Can almost smell your hatred for Koreans through the computer screen it's so potent. |
I wonder why about 99% of people end up hating Koreans. It really is a mystery impossible to fathom. |
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