I'm at Noi Bai Airport, about to fly to Seoul. Hey, South Korea has never been so affordable! It's considerably colder in Seoul, so yesterday I got a $15 jacket. Coupled with the $9 hoodie I bought in Laos, I won't freeze to death. It's curious that no one has died from the coronavirus in Singapore, Thailand or Vietnam, so maybe warm weather does neutralize it.
There are doubts about Vietnam's and Thailand's statistics, but not Singapore's.
The situation in Korea is very bad, but if weather is a factor, at least Spring is near.
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Hey, South Korea has never been so affordable!
Actually the won was much lower in 1998; I know b/c I was working in the US for a Korean company, being paid in USD of course, and the swift crash of the won vs the USD meant the parent company could no longer afford to pay its US employees -- also in the recent past the won was lower.
I assume you have a US passport ... ? -- do Vietnamese need a visa to travel to South Korea?
Hi eahilf,
I'm talking about flight and hotel room prices being slashed...
Linh
That picture of you is superb. Must be the camera :-))
Hi Rudy,
I'm aging so fast, I may just catch up with you!
Linh
Yoh Linh,
the numbers in Thailand are probably fake, just as so in many other countries, including China. Chris Martenson does a good job in explaining this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsJCiZTt3uc
According to him, in Italy for example, they do not count people, who've been tested positive, if they show no symptoms. Which helps the statistics and the spread of the virus, because the incubation time may be up to 24 days (and you can infects others during this time).
In Thailand, they seem to declare people with corona "viral pneumonia cases" instead of corona - helps, keeping the numbers down, while the viral pneumonia cases are rising fast (from Min 07.50 on in the video). Also in regards to Thailand, he mentioned in an earlier video, that Thailand had kept all the flight connections to Wuhan, while most of the world had shut it down, thereby allowing Chinese people to fly to Thailand and then elsewhere, probably infecting others while doing so.
Anyway: Corona will soon hit all of Europe pretty hard - if we consider, that China had officially 278 cases on the 20th of January and one month later there were 75.000 cases WITH all the harsh quarantine measures, one can imagine the results here in Europe, with no real quarantine so far, almost no travel restrictions and so on.
Interesting times!
Stay safe Linh and all the best
Chris
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