Right Wing Christian Churches Hurting South Korea's Battle with Coronavirus

[JI7]

A country is actually able to deal with this VERY well but a bunch of ignorant fucking idiots have to ruin everything . And there are a lot more of these ignorant types in the US so even if we can get a Govt that will do the right thing we will be dealing with these ignorant types.


<The latest outbreak of coronavirus cases centred around a right-wing Presbyterian church has spread to all 17 provinces throughout the country for the first time.

The majority of new cases are all close to the heavily populated capital city which is home to more than 10 million people.

And one of the biggest concerns is that many of the far-right worshippers who are potentially infected believe the virus was planted as part of a conspiracy to close it down.

Many are refusing to be contacted, let alone tested.

The conspiracy theories are making it difficult for South Korea's contact tracers. In total more than 875 members have so far tested positive, but health officials believe hundreds more could be infected and potentially spreading Covid-19 to others.

Church members took part in a huge rally on 15 August in the centre of Seoul along with tens of thousands of others, most of whom were more than 50 years old.

About 200 people have now tested positive for the virus after the rally.

The government said it had asked the church for a full list of members who attended, but they didn't get it.>

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53888219

[tanyev]

1. "even if we get a Govt that will do the right thing we will be dealing with these ignorant types"

Agreed. As things here got worse and worse I thought often about how much better the federal government response would have been with Hillary as president. But then I realized the covidiot/maskhole responses would have been orders of magnitude more hysterical than they already were. We were doomed from the get go.

[abqtommy]

2. Are there no lawmakers is S. Korea? No irate citizens? No military? No policemen? I thought

that the corrupt U.S. government was the most ineffective in the world, but maybe not...

[JI7]

3. There are and they are trying to do something about it

when they refused to give a list of the members they raided their headquarters to get info so they can track down the spread.

But that doesn't change the fact that people like this make everything more difficult .

[Mariana]

4. Churches are pestholes.

The ones that refuse to suspend in-person gatherings are hurting the battle with Coronavirus everywhere.