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EvidentlyEmpirical t1_j5u1wnc wrote

So they're fucking frozen in place, and suffering from presumably Covid, with their sub-standard medicine... All locked in together spreading and infecting each other. The death toll is going to be catastrophic.

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disharmony-hellride t1_j5ucgnl wrote

Some of the rural hospitals in N Korea don’t even have power. This is most likely already awful but it sounds like this could be catastrophic.

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YouNeedAnne t1_j5uic51 wrote

Well, the point of them all staying locked in is so they don't infect each other.

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[deleted] t1_j5yjv6b wrote

They've had COVID for years and the death toll didn't spike

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EvidentlyEmpirical t1_j5ykm2p wrote

That they let us know about.

Remember getting any real accurate information out of North Korea is difficult at best.

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Phoenix_Lazarus t1_j654bel wrote

I'm just hoping it's not bird flu. If it did a jump in North Korea, we're fucked.

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