- City officials had initially tried to track those who visited the bars and clubs in question by using entry logs from the premises. But that method proved ineffective because some of the names turned out to be false.
One of the reasons there was false information in the logs is that at least one of the clubs the man visited was an LGBT club. While attitudes towards homosexuality have improved in South Korea in recent years, it remains a highly conservative country where homophobic sentiment is common.
In the wake of media reports that the man visited a gay club, people flooded social media with anti-gay slurs, blaming the man and those at the club for endangering the country’s fight against the pandemic.
Amnesty International on Tuesday hit out at some of the media coverage of the incident, saying that it was “stirring up hatred and branding a certain group is the biggest obstacle to effective disease prevention.”
C'mon, that's patently unfair. That's a guy who felt fine going out and doing his thing except he wasn't fine and now it's a public health crisis. My wife had the sniffles in February. We got on a plane three days later. I had a bourbon before we got on the plane, which landed at 6am. Got home, had a nap, went to bed early but not quite early enough, got up and went to yoga. Was sweating a little more than usual, but nothing out of the ordinary. Next day didn't feel awesome, didn't feel terrible, spent about a week not feeling awesome, not feeling terrible, nine days later my lungs are burning and I spend 4 hours trying to get a COVID-19 test (to no avail). Now. There were about 14 people in that room with me. The one right next to me is recovering from cancer. Are you going to call me Dylan Klebold too? 'cuz here's the thing. You break curfew in Italy, you're looking at a $600 fine. You break curfew in Italy with a postive COVID test, you're looking at involuntary manslaughter. Now ask yourself: is that going to improve testing compliance? Or is it maybe going to convince people that they'd rather not face 10 years in jail if they have to go buy baby formula? Dylan Klebold.
Oops. You got the wrong end of my stick there... COVID-19 is a tool the next few Dylan Klebold's will use. After all it's "just the flu" and he's young and can fight off a stupid little flu... but before he has to stay in bed all day, he's going to first go out and lick every door handle, cough on every person, and "speak moistly" to everyone he meets. COVID-19 is a bio-weapon that anyone can deploy easily, and with zero technical skill or knowledge. The Korean nightclubber seems like he was just an idiot. But what if he had intended to get people sick...?
So.... perception and reality on biological warfare are miles apart. I say this as an armchair "enthusiast" of non-conventional warfare, whose mother worked in an anthrax lab, who nearly sold a biowarfare pilot to Sony. The principle problem with your theory is that the Dylan Klebolds of the world want the high score. They want the notoriety. If I point a gun at your head and pull the trigger, no inferences need to be made as to your cause of death. But if I cough in your general direction? I'm just sloppy. Lack of agency has been a stumbling block for biological weapons from the get-go. The disease goes where I want it to go, the disease goes where I don't want it to go, the disease goes where the fates will it to go. This is one of the reasons it has been used primarily in siege warfare - if you're all huddled behind a castle wall you're no risk to me. From a terrorist standpoint this dissipates responsibility, too - you either have to be an apocalyptic death cult hell-bent on wiping everyone out or you don't want to get caught. The only terrorist involvement with biological warfare is one example each of those two paradigms. Aum Shinrikyo toyed around with anthrax a little, but never far enough to actually grow anything (they stole some anthrax vaccine). By contrast they created seven different chemical warfare agents and were attempting to mine uranium for a nuke so the biowar aspects were decidedly second-class; we're talking about an organization that unleashed sarin gas in the subway but were decidedly eh towards biowarfare. The Rajneeshis, by comparison, wanted all the voters sick so they could take over the local government so they sprayed salmonella on the salad bars. They weren't even charged for a year. From a public health standpoint, "idiots" are the real problem. "Martyrs" are not. And really - it's extremely unhelpful to the point of cruel to call someone who gets someone else sick an "idiot." He violated no laws. He did nothing intentionally. Yet still you sit here, passing judgement on a guy who was doing socially acceptable things within the parameters of the rule of law... with the notable exception of not signing the "all fags write your name here for future persecution" ledger. I would say two thirds of the people at Fred Meyer understand how to wear a mask. but they're trying. You know the difference between a liberal and a conservative? Liberals want to protect the "idiots" from themselves.
I would argue that Americas Christian's were doing the same thing for weeks and continue to do so. I would argue that, but then someone would castigate me for being a hateful anti-religious bigot, no matter how many people are dead because of the actions of Americas faithful.