i need to state again that the numbers in south korea - which spiked due to a religious ceremony, and then fell once that particular issue was under control - are not as good as some news reports are suggesting.

it's perhaps taken a little longer than might be expected, but the numbers are stubbornly trending higher.

if that one short-term outbreak hadn't happened, which was easy to contain, they would really look just about the same as anywhere else - just shifted a little.

it's when it starts spreading undetected that it gets hard, and that's what looks to be setting hold.

again: these tactics should fail.