Tea and infomercials: North Korea fights COVID with few tools

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Since admitting what it called its first domestic COVID-19 outbreak one week ago, North Korea has been fighting to handle a soaring health crisis that has intensified public anxiety over a virus it previously claimed to have kept at bay.

The country's pandemic response appears largely focused on isolating suspected patients. That may be all it can really do, as it lacks vaccines, antiviral pills, intensive care units and other medical assets that ensured millions of sick people in other countries survived.

North Korea also uses state media outlets - newspapers, state TV and radio - to offer tips on how to deal with the virus to citizens, most of whom have no access to the internet and foreign news. “Their guidelines don't make a sense at all. It's like the government is asking people to contact doctors only if they have breathing difficulties, which means just before they die,” said former North Korean agriculture official Cho Chung Hui, who fled to South Korea in 2011. “My heart aches when I think about my brother and sister in North Korea and their suffering.”

The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed worry this week about the consequences of North Korea's quarantine measures, saying isolation and traveling restrictions will have dire consequences for people already struggling to meet their basic needs, including getting enough food to eat.

“My father and sibling are still in North Korea and I'm worrying about them a lot because they weren't inoculated and there aren't many medicines there,” said Kang Na-ra, who fled to South Korea in late 2014. She said a sibling told her during recent phone calls that their grandmother died of pneumonia, which she believes was caused by COVID-19, last September.

 

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A cult country hopped up on government-supplied meth (a fresh batch every Christmas, too) likely is too mentally scrambled to notice the effects of covid.

Cool you realize you are propaganda also right? How is it going in North America?

Like the flu I guess? Ask Bill Gates, he’ll bring you up to speed.

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