Every country, every city and every town's situation will be very different. But nowadays it's very easy to travel to other country so we were very interconnected.
So you should be aware.
There has bright side though. Recovered cases were increased. And death cases wasn't that increased--compare to the last month--about May 19, 2020, it seems.
screenshot from Coronavirus Update (Live) - Worldometer.com at June 22, 2020 vs May 19, 2020
This is what I thought about it for the title--It's easy to make shocking things--especially bad things (easy money, you can call it that, unfortunately.) But in reality, it wasn't that.
Or this:
Things aren't that worse than what it appears to be, if you can realise it.
What I did explain about the coronavirus in Daegu, that trend continues. And even more so that now it's like almost 200 to 400 people were infected everyday.
Here is previous post's stats:
COVID-19 in Korea - stats of February 21 and February 26, 2020
Now numbers were 7,382--see the stats below photo. You can compare them (see the stats from above photo) with about thirteen days ago--February 26, it was 1,146. And about eighteen days ago--February 21, it was just 156.
More deaths. Now 51 people were dead.
Things looked quite terrifying, isn't it?
Here is the today's stats:
COVID-19 in Korea - stats of March 9, 2020
But what not many news-media reported is this--I don't really trying to read or watch news media though. So I might missed something.
Anyway, as you can see from above photo's stats,
infected case and death numbers are increasing. But what you should know is that...that's not whole story.
Quite surprisingly, some people who infected coronavirus were released from hospital. I am quite not sure about how to call it. So I just call it 'dis-infected'. Dis-infected case(released from hospital) also increasing.
And I have no idea how they cured and what kind of treatment it worked and etc or does wrongly included in infected person--I highly doubt that though.
Dis-infected case (released from hospital) were almost triple times more than death--in Korea. Not sure about other country though.
51 vs 166.
Yesterday, I noticed those number--130 so I thought about to write it. I didn't see the chart from Korean government website yesterday.
And now Korean government website include the chart--number of dis-infected case vs death. So that is very clever move--now news-media will report this, I guess.
COVID-19 in Korea - stats of March 9, 2020 - dis-infected case vs death
I can't say 'coronavirus COVID-19 is treatable' but it will be in some time in the future. Hopefully very soon.
So if those dis-infected cases kept increasing like that, it can happen quite soon, I hope.
It's not always bad things happening in this world. Good things also happening in this world.
News media tend to spread shocking things on the front. Not many people talked about behind story.
"Feels cool to be bullied into voting for Bernie." by Melissa Stetten
Why would you 'feel bullied' for voting to someone? I don't know much about them but I heard some story about the progressive, liberal and democrat before.
So there has so much more about the situation.
Anyway, this tells me--in a way, U.S. society is very similar like Korean society.
And now some strange news article popping around internet via social network, I think.
It's just series of unfortunate events.
He or she didn't know that he or she had a coronavirus. COVID19
And people in the cult knew that many Koreans tend to believe that their religion was very bad--lots of people were saying 'terrible' cult.
So they thought media and Koreans were attacking their religion. So they did things like go to hideout--what I mean is that they didn't come out sooner.
And that's how they spread virus so much, I guess.
And before last week or so, Korean government ask to list of that cult's member. And at the time, cult's organisation didn't know how serious that was.
And.... unfortunately, it was too late.
So now--finally they were come out---with virus.
COVID-19 in Korea - stats of February 21 and February 26, 2020
As you can see from the photo,
last week,
- February 20, it was 82 people.
- February 21, it was 156 people.
And then yesterday,
- February 26, it was 1,146 people.
Only 5 days were passed--above photo, it's 10 times more.
Last a few days, everyday 70 to 100+ people were found that they have COVID-19.
And most of them were related to the Sinchunji--cult and Cheongdo Daenam hospital.
The rest of people in Daeu, were fine.
I'm currently living in Daegu but I don't think I will get COVID-19. Daegu was kind of locked down city now because of that.
People were staying at home, mostly.
almost empty park after COVID19 at Daegu and taken at February 21, 2020 23:52pm.
Photo taken at February 21, 2020 23:52pm.
It was very late night but it was different than any other day--most of the time, I can see a few people even if it was late night.
And you can see very right side (across the river) which had a road and which usually lots of cars were passing through. But it was almost empty at the time.
I think this is what's happening in my home town--Daegu.
"It's unusual for respiratory diseases transmissible even before the first symptoms have occurred," he told Al Jazeera. "But the consequences is that if it happens then they have no public health means to sort out or to identify people at risk of transmitting, because they don't even know that they're ill yet."
Yesterday was July 12, 2019(middle of the July so it should be Summer) so temperature should be like 33+ Celsius during the daytime and 24+ Celsius during the nighttime.
But as you can see below photo,
Strange summer weather in one of hottest city--town, Daegu, in Korea.
It's not even 30 Celsius during the daytime and 20+ Celsius during the nighttime.
And today I found this from facebook memories--I also did tweet about it:
Is this good thing? Or worst to humanity--not climate change, it's climate crisis.
It's not climate change, it's climate crisis.
You can read more from tweets below:
...doing to our climate," said Viner in April. "People need reminding that the climate crisis is no longer a future problem – we need to tackle it now, and every day matters."#climatecrisis#everydaymattershttps://t.co/S1yZ3KAFmS
It’s 2019. Can we all now please stop saying “climate change” and instead call it what it is: climate breakdown, climate crisis, climate emergency, ecological breakdown, ecological crisis and ecological emergency?#ClimateBreakdown#EcologicalBreakdown
If you are grownups, you should realise how our society became-"Some people say that we should be in school instead. But why we should be studying for future soon will be no more. No one is doing anything whatsoever to save that future and what is the point to learning fact...." https://t.co/w24OzFqnQ7
I have number of twitter accounts and blogs because each account had quite different topics that I'm writing about.
Are we really living in twenty first century?
My writings and tweets were quite shocking to the others which means it will be removed by force. But we were living in the twenty first century so I'm quite sure that we had freedom of speech.
Meanwhile, I had this feeling that some of my writings can be kicked out by force--someone or some organisation cleverly claim copyright issues or some political issues.
But I didn't much care because I'm not writing many things in my English blog--yet.
And I just found out that tweets that I shared were gone.
I am sharing many things in my twitter account so I didn't know how many of my tweets were gone.
And when I tried to find my previous tweet--that twitter account don't have many tweets because recently I started doing write things there, I can see "This Tweet is unavailable." message.
And I relised that retweet or attached other people's tweets were gone.
Here is the one that unavailable:
Screenshot of unavailable tweets which I tweeted at April 17, 2019
Screenshot of unavailable tweet's owner account - this account doesn't exist
So I googled about Sophie Warnes and she still has other social media accounts like medium, flickr, etc.
She probably just deleted her twitter account--she works as journalist so she didn't have to delete her twitter account...don't you think?
But you should ask yourself "Why journalist wants to delete twitter account?".
So I tweeted about this:
I needed my previous tweet so I scrolled down. And I found many of my previous tweets were gone like attached photos. Not only tweet, @SophieWarnes account was gone.
I did retweeted because I will write it someday and it was gone. https://t.co/LmtBI1NU4ppic.twitter.com/Mow7Xsa7Fl
Darn, I should know better. Not just previous #tweet, others, too.
I should have screenshot it and retweeted it. This is other reason you shouldn't rely on the tweets--Of course, that is the reason I am writing in the #blog though.#Remember, tweets can easily removed by.... https://t.co/NsUP5UgHHU
I just re-tweeted tweet and original tweet was gone so I couldn't find that tweet. But luckily I did blog about it and I did find this--embedded tweets can keep the tweet like this:
other tweet that deleted - luckily I wrote in my blog.
In a 2002 column, Jonah Goldberg coined the "Ledeen Doctrine", named after neoconservative historian Michael Ledeen. The "doctrine" states: "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."
The producer's list included "more than a dozen organizations, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to the United Kingdom's BBC, Estonia's ETV and numerous European broadcasters" but no U.S. names. .... Writer and director Jarecki said "serious examination of Eisenhower and the aftermath of his speech proved 'too radical' for potential American funders for his film" and except for Sundance, he "could not raise a dollar in the U.S."
I found other interesting idea from Why We Fight official website (sonyclassics.com) - Q&A with Eugene Jarecki - About the film
Quoted from Q&A with Eugene Jarecki:
Why do you think we are fighting in Iraq? Many reasons. There have been so many reasons given for why we are in Iraq - from WMDs to oil, from a democratic crusade to the desire by influential geostrategists to reassert American global power in the wake of 9/11. None of these answers alone is comprehensive. Rather, I think they're all partially true. The war seems to have been of shared service to a range of interests - a coming together of imperial thinkers, global petroleum concerns, and a culture of militarism that tilts toward/requires war to self-perpetuate. After 9/11 all of these came together to create the almost unexplainable momentum that pushed the country to war.
This tweet probably slightly different than previous tweet. But it has same purpose--trying to point out the gender equality issue. So it was same thing.
Either guns are the problem or men are, and we're getting rid of one, so, what's it gonna be?
Those embeded tweet won't searchable text so I will write in text form:
RT @MelissaStetten: RT @missmayn: Either guns are the problem or men are, and we're getting rid of one, so, what's it gonna be?
Told you before - http://bit.ly/2AWuFb4 #Fact: #Toddlers Killed More #Americans than #Terrorists in 2015.
So sentence became - "Either guns are the problem or toddlers are, and we're getting rid of one, so, what's it gonna be?"
Everything is about #blamegame in #USA.
This is America...not some fantasy world...it's a real life. You don't need to inspire by music video...think hard about the title. I didn't read because I don't need to. You have to celebrate--big fuss about...for not killing each other. Almost all other country--any city, don't need celebrate for that matter. Because everyday, we don't kill each other---for no reason.
Three hundred twenty six thousands and six hundred nine people are shared--reblogged or liked this post or reacted this post.
If you think that is good excuse or funny, I will ask this:
So you are saying your are soooo handsome and cool guy that you can hook up a girl in a second? And make romantic involvement in a day?
And you are saying you are staying--not going to work or even go work with her?--with your girlfriend for 24 hours a day and 365 days a year? And you are saying you think about her every moment for 365 days a year?
* Are you Korean? Not whole Korean couples do but many, probably young couples do video call(or voice call) for long hours. Some of them even turn on video call during their work.
If that’s the case, you can say one day(not once, exact amount for one day) a month cheating on her for one year should 12/365 days. If not, you have completely wrong idea about real life.
And don’t think about some illogical way to excuse yourself for do some bad things.
And stop reading those gibberish ideas from internet--especially social networking sites. And stop thinking that those gibberish and rubbish ideas are funny.
P.S. See. Those gibberish and rubbish ideas became extremely famous. But so many good ideas or very important things like society and political issues, people made them to shut up--those are very negative things they said.
I remember a few weeks or a month ago, so many people talked about Trump's wrongdoing. But now they all--even I can call it completely shut up in social media. He was doing same thing but social media, especially people shut up about it because people saying they were sooo upset to see negative things.
People became more and more mindless.. Of course, that's why Zombie movies and Zombie TV shows are soooo popular.
This is Sinbundang line's Gangnam subway station.
You have to wait for the using the toilet because very small toilet and this area was one of busiest and crowded area in Seoul.
Compare to the toilet, as you can see the photo that huge public area and those places were filled up with huge advertisement--screen.
P.S. This can be one example about the capitalism. Here they think about 'money comes first' so they don't think about anything else. Only put more place for the making money. Who spent money there? Who was watching those advertisement? People, right? So if you want to make people to spend money, you have to make convenient and comfortable place for the people.
Why I wrote this blog post, you think? Because they thought about 'making money only, nothing else'.
Simply I can put this as bad product. Do you think bad product can make good profit? If you think that, I don't have anything say to you. Stop reading my writings please.
It's not capitalism problem. More and more people are only focusing on the money.
Figure was there probably 10+ years. But strangely nobody knew about it.
It was very strange. Because whenever some mass shooting(or similar thing) was happening in United States of America, I am hearing it's terrorist attack--probably all the time.
I don't really read any newspaper or news websites but I still get the news from my facebook or twitter timeline.
Also I can see so many blame going on toward to Muslim.
But once in a while, I saw this kind of post:
src: The Huffington Post - The Freakonomics Of Extreme Extreme Vetting by Todd R. Miller @ Sep 02, 2016
Those stats were all came from government so it was very reliable source.
I can't remember when I've seen similar one before. (I'm not digging up this time.) But every year government release that stats so I can guess--probably exist around 2012 or 2013.
More recent one you can easily find in CNN website:
Gun violence was almost 1,000+ times more but they don't seem to bother....
1,000+ times more were exclude year 2001 stats. Include year 2001--it became 100+ times more.
BBC news said like this:
According to figures from the US Department of Justice and the Council on Foreign Affairs, 11,385 people died on average annually in firearm incidents in the US between 2001 and 2011.
In the same period, an average of 517 people were killed annually in terror-related incidents. Removing 2001, when 9/11 occurred, from the calculation produces an annual average of just 31.
quote from Guns in the US: The statistics behind the violence - BBC News @ 5 January 2016
Gun violence and terrorism: The US spends more than a trillion dollars per year defending itself against terrorism, which kills a tiny fraction of the number of people killed by ordinary gun crime.
quote from Guns in the US: The statistics behind the violence - BBC News @ 5 January 2016
Gun violence stats
If you do google search about gun violence, you can get this kind of result:
screenshot of Google search with gun violence @ January 31, 2017
How many people are killed each year by guns?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2013, there were 73,505 nonfatal firearm injuries (23.23 per 100,000 U.S. citizens); 11,208 homicides (3.5 per 100,000); 21,175 suicides; 505 deaths due to accidental/negligent discharge of a firearm; and 2818 deaths due to firearms-use with "undetermined ... (src: Gun violence in the United States - Wikipedia) quote from Google search result
If I talked about this, it will be long. So I will just quote my tweet and
If government won't listen people, what they do?
Just sit there! Let some rich men ruled whole country? That's what you call democratic.
RT @MelissaStetten: It's Sunday. RT @aubrey_huff: I mean seriously what the hell is going on? If you have time 2 march, protest and riot. Maybe it's time for something called a job! https://twitter.com/thinklogically/status/825958064046043137
I wrote those yesterday afternoon. And I'd like to write about it so I was checking the source--tweet. But twitter said unavailable.
Anyway, march, protest and riot were part of democratic act, you know.
You probably don't believe riot wasn't democratic act but it is. Think about this: If president do things like dictator or king, people will go crazy, right? So if that happens, what angry(crazy) people will do, you think?
I was surprised. I probably can see those countries but I'm not sure about the figure. So I did some digging--not much though.
It looked like hard to find exact figure--I did very simple googling so I couldn't find, maybe.
Even if it was there nobody can tell exact figure because bombing--invasion is still going on.
But one thing I can say is those figure could be probably right because America dropped 26,171 bombs in 7 countries--it's not recent 4 to 5 years figure. Just last year alone--2016.
If you dropped a bomb, do you think it was perfectly possible with zero civilian casualty? Of course, it was always possible in Hollywood movie.
If you think that, I don't have anything to say to you. Don't read my writings please.
Not just 10 or 20.
Or 100 or 1,000 bombs.
It's 26,171 bombs in 2016.
Don't complain they are in dictatorship or inequality issue. You have your own inequality issue and dictatorship–through media brainwashed people and control them. You can't solve your country’s problem but you can solve other country's problem??? That's why you are brainwashed by media.
Originally I wrote this in my wordpress blog at December 5, 2015.
I moved to that wordpress blog because strange Koreans who read my Korean blogs(about learn English properly and other things) came to this blog for complain about my English--because Korea's English education systems are completely corrupted.
Now I am thinking about getting back here to continue. So I will write here.
Part of reason is this: Majority people never even been to other country or they never meet people from other country. So they have no idea what it's like living in another world–another country. But media and some stupid propaganda making this huge misconception–that some country's people are inhuman or even call them as 'evil'.
Cultural differences became some kind of demonized act. These things, some political leader and media take advantage of it–no, unfortunately these people also brainwashed by media. So they think other country or other culture are evil so they have to destroy–correct them.
Don't complain they are in dictatorship or inequality issue. You have your own inequality issue and dictatorship–through media brainwashed people and control them. You can't solve your country's problem but you can solve other country's problem???
That’s why you are brainwashed by media.
So 'invasion', we called 'war'.
P.S. A few other factors:
– Travelling to other country doesn't mean understand other country's culture–some people know very little about other culture but they said they knew everything.
– Simple fact, media (and government agency) keep reporting that it's dangerous to travel some country. Think about the other side, if that country is so dangerous, how people live there? Have you ever even thought about this? We are all human being, after all. They are not evil, you know.
– Think about this. Do you think people will even read this? Just unknown guy's talk, why do people even bother, right?
And do you think people believe what I said? Or people will believe what newspaper, TV and magazine said.
Whatever it is, in the end, people will listen and believe (even follow them) what famous newspaper, magazine, TV said.
Unfortunately, that is the fact.
And this misunderstanding, misconception will continue.
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Originally I wrote this in my wordpress blog at December 24, 2013.
I moved to that wordpress blog because strange Koreans who read my Korean blogs(about learn English properly and other things) came to this blog for complain about my English--because Korea's English education systems are completely corrupted.
Now I am thinking about getting back here to continue. So I will write here.
Don't get me wrong. I am not big fan of some of Muslim's practice like women must wear hijab and other dress code and etc. (I actually don't like it but at least I am respecting their choices.)
And you can argue or discuss about it also fine. But if you talking like that kind of practice is pure barbaric thing to do, that's seriously wrong with your society. (Should I talk about how barbaric western's Catholic is? Try to research what Pope or priest done things. You can't solve the your problem but you are so right to attacking other religion?)
(Of course, that's how media brainwashed to the people with tagline 'Muslim is Evil'. And start invasion.)
So if your society isn't so barbaric, how come your country always attacking other country?
This world became more more pathetic.
I wrote this because I heard when someone describe about the practice with so much hatred in it and surprisingly talk show's host completely agree on that–It means their producer and people and their channel agree that it is right to hate the Muslim, isn't it?
I wrote this at 8:42pm 12 December 2013 in my facebook account here.
P.S. Many of western media attacking Muslim. And then so deceivingly put slogan like 'world peace'. Are you kidding me?
Of course, most problem is people fell for it.
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I came back to Korea around end of November 2007 so I haven't been speaking or writing English almost 3 years now. Yes, sometimes, I spoke English but not for long. And my writing English skill wasn't good at all. Truthfully, it was really bad.
Now I really need something to write in English and my horrible written English makes me crazy. :-( I did thought about recording it or make video but my English was horrible so I couldn't afford to do that, either.
Oh, maybe you don't understand what rubbish I am talking about. so here is one of good example. I couldn't even spell out "suffering" so I have to find out from dictionary. :-(
Darn. I'm seriously hoping that there has real English town in Korea so I could go there and practice my English again.
I am really missing the Cameron Highland in Malaysia. Because that is my favourite place for writing. You can look at some photo from here
I am a writer. And very sarcastic one. So if you don't like that kind of things, don't click and read, please.
I would like to write anything that can help our society.
Have you ever thought about what it makes change the world?
Is there any story or movie that touch your life? And you probably can say that that made you changed life.
This is what I thought about it for the title--It's easy to make shocking things--especially bad things (easy money, you can call it that, unfortunately.) But in reality, it wasn't that.
