North Korea Launches Mass Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign (wsj.com) 40
North Korea has begun a mass Covid-19 vaccination campaign in its border areas, according to South Korea's spy agency, becoming one of the world's final countries to embark on such a national rollout. From a report: North Korea and Eritrea, in east Africa, were the only remaining countries that hadn't started widespread vaccination distribution, the World Health Organization has said. After rejecting millions of doses from other countries last year, North Korea admitted to its first nationwide Covid-19 outbreak in May and declared victory in August. Then, earlier this month, leader Kim Jong Un said Covid-19 vaccines would be distributed starting in November. He cited findings from the country's antiepidemic experts that North Koreans who contracted Covid-19 in May and June would experience a decline in their antibody response starting in October.
During a Wednesday briefing to South Korean lawmakers, Seoul's spy agency said North Korea had begun distributing vaccines, though it didn't specify in which border areas. The lawmakers who were briefed didn't say where the vaccines had come from or when they were first distributed. Repeated lockdowns suggest North Korea hasn't eradicated the virus, the spy agency told lawmakers. Considering some recent resumption of flights and train operations between China and North Korea, it is most likely that China is supplying the vaccines, said Hong Min, of the Seoul-based Korea Institute for National Unification, a government-funded think tank.
During a Wednesday briefing to South Korean lawmakers, Seoul's spy agency said North Korea had begun distributing vaccines, though it didn't specify in which border areas. The lawmakers who were briefed didn't say where the vaccines had come from or when they were first distributed. Repeated lockdowns suggest North Korea hasn't eradicated the virus, the spy agency told lawmakers. Considering some recent resumption of flights and train operations between China and North Korea, it is most likely that China is supplying the vaccines, said Hong Min, of the Seoul-based Korea Institute for National Unification, a government-funded think tank.
North Korea hasn't eradicated the virus... (Score:1, Troll)
No one has - it's something the human race has to live with.
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You can do better.
Its almost like you're not really trying to troll properly anymore.
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Nah, that's is the best he can do. Hey rrsilvergun, the trick is to bang the rocks together.
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Re: North Korea hasn't eradicated the virus... (Score:1)
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The CDC's new definition of vaccination is a lie.
I'm not sure you know what the old definition is.
Here's a definition from the early 1900s:
adj. derived from a cow
n. lymph so derived (to be used in vaccination)
Vaccinate:
v. to inoculate (with lymph from the cow) as a preventative against smallpox.
https://archive.org/details/mo... [archive.org]
OK. So the definition has changed. But only because there is more than one vaccine now. Even back to smallpox, cowpox antibodies did not always work against smallpox - but it slowed it enough for it to be eradicated.
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Even back to smallpox, cowpox antibodies did not always work against smallpox - but it slowed it enough for it to be eradicated.
And yet Smallpox seem to find funding four decades after it was eradicated.
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/news... [fda.gov]
Yeah, we "eradicated" it alright. Stole it from nature and shoved it into the head of a biological weapon. Fun times.
Let me know when you find a cure for the Disease of Greed. Haven't found one in 5,000+ years. Good luck.
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Perhaps someone should have had the scientists read that definition.
You know, before they were telling everyone how you can't catch COVID again.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/... [thesun.co.uk]
Yeah. After decades of diseases and vaccinations, we were still that stupid. Don't assume so hard next time. Mutations? Meh, that'll never happen.
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Did you actually read that? In May of 2020 the article concludes that there isn't enough evidence that you have any long term immunity and that you likely get some short term immunity. Nothing wrong with that statement.
The rest of the article before it seems to be written by someone who didn't understand the South Koreans they were referencing. They were clearly saying that COVID doesn't stick around in the body and cause a later relapse (not the same as reinfection) and said that PCR tests will still pi
Great Deal on left overs (Score:3)
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China has been supplying a lot of countries with vaccines, so it's likely part of that programme and an up-to-date formulation.
It's part of their soft power strategy.
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Deal? I'm sure he invented his own far superior version on his own.
No doubt vaccine invented by dear leader himself (Score:5, Funny)
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It's a very effective uptake campaign (Score:2, Troll)
Get the shot or be shot.
They dumped sand & mulch in the skate parks. (Score:1, Interesting)
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I'll never forget it.
Yes you will, just as soon as the people who keep feeding you outrage find something new for you to get angry about.
There's an election coming up in America, so dollars to donuts it'll be something about that.
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I'll never forget it.
I'll never forget all the selfish whiny little bitches who could not make the smallest sacrifices to help protect their fellow citizens. Certainly a low point in our history.
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Ya except it turns out you were wrong and no one was protected from anything at anytime...
We know which countries did well and which ones not so much during the last few years. We will be analyzing for some time into the future to determine which measures worked well and which ones did not to be sure. Pretty safe to say doing nothing will compare poorly to most everything else though, sorry. We learned shit about contagions back in the 1300s that you still have issues with. How backwards is that?
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Ya except it turns out you were wrong and no one was protected from anything at anytime...
We know which countries did well and which ones not so much during the last few years.
Oh really? Why haven't you booked your flight to China like yesterday then? Hell, they've only lost 5,200 to COVID in all this, so stop being so damn cruel to the rest of us and tell us their secrets to survival! By the numbers, they're kicking everyone's asses with their response. (Pay no attention to urn sales. That's "normal".)
We will be analyzing for some time into the future to determine which measures worked well and which ones did not to be sure.
You will be analyzing what you're allowed to see and analyze. As per Fauci and the rest of the vaccine vendors protecting their Greed. Now get in line for your annual foreve
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Myself, I already get a flu shot every year, it is nice to live in a modern civilization where we have such things. I have no problem with what will eventually likely be a yearly COVID shot as well, in fact I just got my new bivalent booster ahead of t
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And how would a selfish whiny little bitch know that?
When I started reading the subject... (Score:2)
It's taken them this long... (Score:5, Funny)
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Funny (Score:1)
Kim Jung Un has a better (albeit delayed) Covid response than the republican party.
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Kim Jung Un has a better (albeit delayed) Covid response than the republican party.
Good that you're heaping praise on their leader. Should you talk badly, you might find you and three generations of your family sitting in a prison work camp for life.
Tell me again how Republicans bad, Kim Jung Un good. I'm sure he's being completely honest about death statistics as he always has too.