In today’s reality, it’s really difficult to forget about
COVID-19. We are watching and listening to news from various sources about
different countries and their current situation economy-wise, social-wise,
health-wise. There is one country that reacted very quickly and successfully to
the current situation. Here is a short movie prepared by Vox channel on YouTube
that depicts how South Korea reacted to the virus:
1.
How do you view this movie? Did you know about
South Korea and their quick reaction to the Coronavirus?
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How are you spending your time during lockdown?
Comments
2. To be honest, I work a lot. From 8 to 16 I am remotely at work, but later I have online classes at the university. So, I am very busy every day. I don't have enough time to rest. I am looking forward to holidays and that in July, I will no longer be any threat.
The short movie was interesting I am always amazed by how deeply computerized societies operate. I knew that China and Korea had stopped the rapid growth of the cases relatively quickly, but I thought that it was propaganda. It turned out that for the second one it was technology.
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Work and University take up most of my time I am looking to the summer break when I finally will get some rest.
2. I'm sitting at home and in order not to go crazy I try to take 5000 steps a day, I lack movement but I can manage, fighting coronavirus is the most important thing right now.
I am full of admiration for the Koreans. Korea is a country with a huge population density. Governments have not decided to apply a strategy of total closure of the population and economy.The government in Korea has done the opposite of the governments in Europe. I think it is because of experience. The Korean people have had a recent experience of the Sars epidemic. This has resulted in the authorities using mass testing and contact trapping of people infected with the coronavirus instead of lockdown, and since the discipline of the citizens has come to this point, the result is that the country has only recorded a little over 11,000 cases of infection by over 50 million people.
2. How are you spending your time during lockdown?
I repainted the basement during quarantine.. My wife and I also cleaned up the garden. We didn't spill any more things because she works in the health service and I've always worked remotely.
I did not know about the ways South Korea used to fight Coronavirus. It is a very interesting approach that shows things can be done differently. One conclusion I made is that every approach required people to devote something: lockdown - staying at home, losing jobs. Contact tracking - privacy concerns, we never know who will use this data later. After the pandemic, many conclusions would be done, I believe. Then we will be able to compare which method was the most successful one and base it both on the economics, deaths, and opinions of the regular people.
2. How are you spending your time during lockdown?
My life did not change much. I learn I work, I read books and I ride a bike. Sad thing is that I cannot go to the gym or swimming pool, but it is not that bad at all. I never get bored, to be honest.
2. Aside from wasting time, which I already stated in another question like that, lately I began to focus a bit more on thesis as end of semester is approaching us, and began some houseworks to freshen up house. Painting walls, changing furniture and such.
1. How do you view this movie? Did you know about South Korea and their quick reaction to the Coronavirus?
South Korea already has experience with pandemics. Neighboring China you have plenty of options to experience that (Corona is not even remotely first virus to come out of there lol), sars, other covid that happened years before, flu... Korea already knows how to handle this.
2. How are you spending your time during lockdown?
Exactly the same as I was before lockdown -- programming, listening to music and playing.
This short film is a great example of a good informative film. The channel that has posted it is known for their straight forward providing of information and pleasing graphical style. I had no idea that South Korea's reaction to Coronavirus was so rapid and effective. I have spent my time on reading about the countries with the WORST anti-Covid policies so South Korea was a little bit under my radar.
2. How are you spending your time during lockdown?
Apart from my usual school projects I watch films and play video games that I haven't had time to play before. At the beginning of the quarantine it was much more enjoyable then now but it still helps me get by in this boring time.
I don't have much time for quarantine because I work and study during the day, but besides that, I practice at home, run and play board games. I think it's a good time to use it on your loved ones.
2. I stay at home as most people. I have a lot of time for reading and cooking.
We should prepare in the same way for the second wave.
2. I play video games more often. I spend most of my time at home and I call to my friends on skype. Thanks to that I can keep my flowers alive.
I also tried to exercise but in the long run I lack the motivation to practice alone
I feel so proud of them, sounds like their government really cares. I think the prevention of the virus is a very wise step, because many countries` fault was that they started reacting, when number of infected people went up and it was uncontrollable. Seems like it was a real investigation from their end, they even applied innovative tools to trace the infected ones, I am impressed.
2. How are you spending your time during lockdown?
I work and after work I have classes. That is really boring and I loo forward to getting somewhere to a public place for a cup of coffee with my friends, I really lack of that. Started reconsidering my life and appreciating some irrelavant things, they seemed to be not important before this outbreak.
2. For me the only difference is working from home instead of the office. Normally, I don’t go out very often. Also, I don’t quite understand why some people think that it is a problem. Most people work from 9 to 5 and just go home after work. What’s different right now?
News programmes and articles around the world have discussed this topic and presented South Korea as a country with stellar response to the Covid-19 outbreak. Therefore, the topic hasn’t slipped my attention. However, this video is more detailed on the reasons of South Korea’s success than anything else I’ve seen so far.
2. How are you spending your time during lockdown?
Many institutions and companies switched to a remote mode of working. Therefore, our university and my employer still keep me busy in these strange times. Surprisingly, despite shopping malls being closed, I have recently bought more stuff than usual thanks to online shopping. I also had a few unsuccessful attempts at home exercise.
1. The movie itself was very interesting and I was astounded by how quickly and effectively the Koreans reacted to the Covid outbreak. Before watching that YouTube video, I had no idea that they had such good reaction time. I think that all countries should learn from them and use their techniques in order to stop the pandemia. We could all use a break from that panic.
2. I work from my home and I spend my free time at drawing or playing video games. I also cook every day together with my Dad. Every weekend I go for a long walk together with my boyfriend. I am really happy to see restaurants re-opening as I missed visiting my favourite local restaurant for lunches after work. Of course, I still wear masks everywhere outside my home.
2. During lockdown mostly I work from home and go on walks with my dog. To that I started running and working out at home as I can’t go to the gym. Now as the restrictions are slowly being taken off, I also started to meet my friends again instead of just talking through the phone.
2 / One and the same thing: put on a mask, wash your hands and cover your mouth when you cough.
I prepared for quarantine. I took myself new games, created a new character in Stardew Valley, overlaid myself with books, pumped up audio books ... As a result, I sleep most of the time. #stayhome
2. I work, study and watch movies in the evenings. Boredom, boredom and boredom again. I can't wait to finally go to some club with my friends.
No, I haven't heard about the situation in South Korea and how they managed to quickly react to the coronavirus. It is a great video to spread knowledge about how the fight with this virus should be done and that we all are can do our job to finish this pandemic. I am also interested in their system of tracking citizens and how legal it is. I mean in times like this it does a great job, but what will be after the pandemic finishes? Will, they shut it down or will continue to track all moves of their citizens.
2. How are you spending your time during a lockdown?
I have a lot of work too. I am now working on a new project, so I have to work harder than usual, also it is my last semester, so I am writing my master's work. To be honest, even without this pandemic I would spend most of my time in home, just to finish all my tasks
I have heard about the quick reaction of the South Korean government to the pandemic somewhere in the international news before. I think it is a good approach; massive testing and tracing the sick patients is definitely the way to contain the pandemic but realistically speaking this is not possibile e.g. in Poland due to the lack of national funding for the health service and also due to the UE laws. Nevertheless, South Korea learned from the MERS outbreak and maybe we can learn for the future from the present pandemic.
2. How are you spending your time during lockdown?
Pandemic and total lockdown did not change that much for me. The main change is that I am working and studying from home instead from the office and the university but in my case that saves me some time on commuting. I just miss going out with friends on the weekends and we only see each other virtually when we video call.
I think that South Korea could be used as an example of proper reaction on such a pandemic. Testing is the greatest thing that we can do to decrease the impact of viruses on our society.
2. How are you spending your time during lockdown?
I do a lot of work, I spent a lot of time with my family
2. Probably like most people, I am waiting for everything to return to normal. I am lucky that the work that I do can be done by me remotely from home, so I am not complaining about boredom. However, I very much miss the usual going out on the city or even such a good old sad reality that we had and did not appreciate it before the outbreak of the epidemic.
The movie was very interesting and informative, I have already known about contact tracking, but their app which tracks sick people is a great solution but at the same time I thought how much information South Korea authorities have about citizens, even live location tracking!
2. How are you spending your time during lockdown?
I have a lot of work to do, started to cook more than before. Also, I have a new hobby, it's painting :)
I knew they reacted quickly, but I wasn't aware what exactly they did. This movie was very interesting and worthwhile.
2. How are you spending your time during lockdown?
Well, I spend my time the same as always - doing school projects, reading books, playing Terraria, watching Netflix. Nothing has changed for me at all.