>> Korea. It seems to be experiencing at least the beginning of a widespread outbreak
of COVID-19. Not a lot of information has been made available just yet,
but with what has already come out, there is reason to be concerned. Earlier today,
they said that they're experiencing a massive outbreak of a fever with at least 350,000 cases,
that is within one day of when they admitted that they had their first ever case of COVID.
So a lot of people, I think very reasonably assuming that that is in fact what it is.
Of those 350,000, 162, 200 have reportedly already recovered,
but more than 18,000 quote persons in a fever
were newly registered just yesterday suggesting that there is a rapid spread of this virus.
Kim Jong also announced that the country is gonna go into lockdown, not saying how many people
might currently have it. Anyway apparently, almost 200,000 people have been in quarantine,
six people have had a fever symptoms, one died,
so there's a belief that maybe the Omicron variant is responsible for this rapid spread.
The most important information that you can understand about this is that
seemingly North Korea has no vaccine infrastructure, nobody has the vaccine,
maybe some of the senior members of their political and military leadership.
But this thing, if it starts to spread it is gonna be spreading in a way that we have not
seen since the very beginning of this pandemic, a population that has no built in protection,
many of which are in ill health, like there's high levels of starvation effectively.
It is possible that a lot of people could
die as a result of this breath. >> For it to get to a level where
the North Korean government is admitting there's a problem, that means it's probably
at a much higher level than they're willing to admit, or they just wouldn't admit it.
So yeah, I and then also to be in a country where there's so much
control that the government has over everybody's day to day lives and that includes communications.
I don't know what to do with stories like this honestly, they leave me with this weird like aha,
North Korea, you got a problem then you realize that like people are dying and they already had
it bad in a country that is famine stricken at all times, this like quadruple sucks.
>> Exactly, yeah and there's nothing you can do, you can't leave if it starts to spread. If
you're seeing people dial around you, you can't leave, you can't even likely go to a different
part of that country to get away from it. And so absolutely devastating on top of that, as bad as
it is already that they don't have access to the vaccine, it's the knowledge that they could have.
Apparently the global Kovacs system which look, obviously was not capable
or funded enough to spread a wide number of vaccines all around the globe did apparently
reach out to North Korea and apparently Kim denied them and did not accept their help
in helping to vaccinate their populations. So as with many other situations in that country,
if terrible things come about, it is going to be on their regime,
they've opted into this with their policies and their approach to the rest of the world.
Anyway, with that said Brett, we're gonna try to maybe depending on your garbage person,
lighten things up, so, I'm gonna get the trash out. Sophie you let
me know when we're ready to go, I'm gonna read a message or two,
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>> I'm in the the natural bread charm and it had a hot toddy when this started.
>> Jesus, okay. >> Happy half hour, coffee mugs at shop TYT.