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…17 pupils expelled for engaging in sex orgy NOEL IYOMWA writes @SunZambian SEVENTEEN pupils at a boarding school in Chibombo district in Central Province have been expelled from school after allegedly engaging in a sex party. According to a witness, who is also a pupil at the school, which he named, the incident happened on the International Women’s Day. The eyewitness said male pupils went to the female dor-

mitory and started having sex with their female counterparts, but one of the girls who was not part of the ‘arrangement’ alerted the school authorities, who rushed to the dormitory and found the pupils in the act. He said the boarding master who rushed to the dormitory locked the door and alerted other members of staff. “The male pupils were trapped in the girls’ dormitory. They were fished out by the teachers and other staff. The incident has shocked the school

and surrounding community,” the source said. He said all the pupils had been expelled from the school. But when contacted for a comment Chibombo district education board secretary (DEBS) Belina Moono referred queries to the district education standards officer, Lembani Sakala. Ms Sakala said she had contacted the school authorities but they had told her that nothing of that nature ever happened at the school.

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…Leaked Kaingu video causes social media storm NOEL IYOMBWA writes @SunZambian IRIS Kaingu’s younger sister, Namatama, has found herself in some social media bother after her friend(s) leaked a video of the teenager in a state of undress in her dormitory. Namatama was apparently having a moment with her friends in the school dormitory when the friends filmed as she dressed and modelled. Namatama is appalled by the betrayal of her friends who circulated the video of her in various states of undress. A few years ago socialite Iris Kaingu was arrested for publication and circulating a pornographic material which went viral on social media. Iris was charged and convicted in the courts of law, but a few years down the line, history has repeated itself but this time it is her sibling. The video has gone viral on social media where the teenager Namatama Kaingu is seen showing off her curved body in what seems to be a boarding house room. In the video, one of the girls could be heard asking her if she has taken nude pictures before which she said she has never done. Other girls in the room can be seen partially dressed in the background, while Namatama was posturing, posing and touching her body, while completely naked. In the video, which the Sun had sight of, the girl could be seen posing for her friends just after having a bath. In the video, Namatama is chatting with her roommates with one of them filming. Namatama is further seen twirling and posing back and front views for the camera. However, many social media users have expressed conflicting views on the matter with some blaming the person who took the video and circulated it on social media and others blaming Namatama for allowing herself to be filmed naked. Namatama on the other hand expressed disappointment with her colleague “who betrayed her”. “I wish you would’ve noticed the love I had for you, and how much I would’ve given up for you. “But you chose to repay me in such a way,” she posted on her Facebook page.

But the source insisted that the incident happened and said authorities might have quietly re-called the pupils to hush up the scandal and save the school’s reputation. “Everyone at the school is fully aware of what happened that night. It has been the talk of the day. The standards officer should not have phoned but gone there and interviewed pupils in confidence if she wanted to know the truth,” the source said.

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Namatama’s elder sister Iris Kaingu on the other hand warned people to be careful with the kind of friends they chose. Philishs B. Mule”nga wrote: This is a lesson to all, not everyone who laughs with you is your friend, some people just befriends us to get information or bring us down. These people hid themselves in sheep's clothing. Olo don’t mind people who are bad mouthing about you, they also have hidden agendas, pretending to be holy saints. Crawford Brownz wrote: Hey young princess, don't worry that was in the boarding house. There are lot of stuffs going round in boarding..... Your friend just useless. Just pretend as if nothing happened. Edith Thabo wrote: They're just demons they were jealous of you and your body shape. Nalucha Imasiku wrote: Be a sister’s keeper, don't share the video if you have it, she was fooling around in the comfort of her dorm & betrayed by friends. Her elder sister Iris Kaingu on the other hand warned people to be careful with the kind of friends they chose. “Be careful who you call your friends.” The Namatama video has come barely a week after two women and a hotel manager from Siavonga were arrested for production of pornographic videos and another for sharing an obscene video in a WhatsApp group.

THE 2020 national dialogue that was convened on illegal wildlife trading and poaching has resolved to engage communities and increase partnership with traditional leaders to help curb the scourge in Zambia. Zambia National Community Resource Board Association president Felix Shanungo said the policy was key to reducing poaching in Zambia, which he said was robbing the country of its resources. Mr Shanungo said there was a need to put up structures that ensured protection of wildlife and other resources. He said it was wrong for people to erect structures along the wildlife reserves as that had resulted in serious animal-human conflicts. Mr Shanungo said dialogue would help the stakeholders to find stringent measures to safeguard resources. He said he was happy that local communities were being engaged as custodians of the natural resources within their areas. Zambia Community Natural Resource Management chairperson Rogers Lubilo said a national steering committee had been put in place to spearhead the process and to come up with framework that was aimed at saving natural resources. Dr Lubilo said restricted resources such as mukula and pangolins were being illegally moved to other countries. “We are going to increase the local partnership with various stakeholders to ensure all illegal activities in the conservation areas are stopped,” he said. Dr Lubilo thanked the British government for supporting the national wildlife conversation initiative.

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Red Cross injects K8 million into Kalabo’s vulnerable A SENIOR government official in Kalabo district of Western province has commended the Zambia Red Cross Society for coming to the aid of vulnerable people that were hit by the drought in the 2018/19 farming season. Kalabo district commissioner Fridah Luhila said this when Zambia Red Cross Society officials were disbursing the emergency cash distribution exercise of K500 each to over 4,000 beneficiaries drawn from eleven wards of the district held at St. Michael Catholic Church ground recently. Mrs Luhila said the district was heavily engulfed by the drought resulting in severe hunger among the farmers in the locality. She has since reiterated government's commitment of working closely with all likeminded partners who prioritize the plight of the vulnerable communities in the country. The District Commissioner has lauded Zambia Red Cross Society for riding on a proactive legislation created by government through the Disaster Management policy which calls for multi-stakeholder participation and multi- sectoral approach to addressing community felt needs. Mrs Luhila said government was optimistic that the Red Cross Society will continue playing their auxillary role of partnering with various government sectors in order to assist Kalabo district communities' resilience to climate impacts. Meanwhile, Red Cross Society representative Branch Development Manager Fortune Mulongo says his organization will spend about K 8 million in the next four months towards vulnerable people in the district. Mr Mulongo said the aim of the society is to see to it that there is social and economic change among the people in Kalabo district. He said all the beneficiaries of the emergency cash transfer in the locality were receiving their monies through MTN mobile money. Meanwhile, one of the beneficiaries Agness Chingunde of Malelekwa compound in the district said the money will assist her with home requirements and send her children to school. Ms Chingunde has called on other non -governmental organisations to emulate what Zambia Red Cross Society was doing in alleviating people's suffering in the district. - ZANIS

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‘Observe hygiene’ Dr. Banda said cleanliness is first priority in avoiding waterborne diseases.

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BSERVE high standards of hygiene in the markets, Minister of Local Government, Charles Banda, has implored marketers. Dr Banda said markets are critical establishments in avoiding the spread of diseases such Coronavirus and Cholera because they are food distribution points. Dr. Banda said cleanliness is first priority in avoiding waterborne diseases. He was speaking when he led stakeholders in cleaning Chainda and UNIP markets in Lusaka's Chainda Ward recently. "Don't be surprised that we have come here to join you in cleaning the markets, just know that we are serious with the programme maintaining hygiene in markets and bus stations. Dr Banda reminded marketeers that they spend most of their time in the markets hence the need to take keep them (markets) clean. The Minister observed that if citizens do not keep their homes and work places clean then there is no hope that they will care about other places. He said it is easy for diseases to stem from homes and work places and be spread to other areas. "They say charity begins at home so it’s important to start by cleaning our homes and work places because if we don't, diseases can start from there and spread to other places," he emphasized. And Dr Banda said in the wake of Coronavirus pandemic market authorities and markeers should ensure that hand washing facilities are placed at all entrances to markets to enable shoppers and marketeers wash their

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hands before handling food. He observed that in the process of customers choosing want they want they handle many other items and can easily contaminate them if they have not washed their hands. "When a person comes to buy vegetables at your stand sometimes they don't pick the bunch which is on top, they want to go for the one right at the bottom, and in the process they can contaminate other bunches which they are not even buying," he observed. Dr. Banda explained that marketers handle food which is consumed by so many people regardless of where they live hence his Ministry's emphasis to keep markets clean. He said if marketeers and markets are dirty it means many other people, including ministers like himself will consume dirty food adding that diseases can easily spread that way. The Minister said the fight against the spread of Coronavirus in Zambia

Choma youth act against political violence MULENGA MUSONDA writes @SunZambian LET us desist from wearing Military regalia and stop addressing ourselves with titles like Commander, Choma Patriot Front Youth Chairperson has requested. David Amukusana was speaking during a Peace Building meeting between the Patriotic Front and the United Party for National Development Youths which was organised by a Non-Profit Organisation called The Voice whose mandate is to fight political violence and tribalism. The PF youth leader said, the call for a round table meeting between the two parties had come at the right time as it is only the youths who can end the Political violence in the Country. He said political carders should stop instilling fear among citizens by using words such as "2021 ikakosa or 2021 teyabana Iyo" as such statements can ignite violence. Apart from the PF District Youth

needs concerted effort from all stakeholders if the fight is to be won. Dr Banda said the cleaning activity at Chainda Market was symbolic of what is happening in all the 116 Local Authorities in the Republic of Zambia. He urged marketeers and market authorities not to take the cleaning exercise as a one off activity but a routine. And speaking earlier, Chainda Ward Councillor, Dorcas Moyo thanked the Minister of Local Government for choosing to join marketeers in her ward for today's cleaning activities. She said the Minister's presence motivated everyone to participate in the cleaning and that it symbolises the importance government attaches to the prevention of the spread of Coronavirus and other diseases. Ms Moyo, appealed to residents of her ward not to wait for Ministers and other external stakeholders to come and remind them to clean their surroundings.

Salons, barbers take up anti-COVID-19 style BUUMBA CHIMBULU writes @SunZambian

File Photo: structures, only one representative from the entire UPND district youth wing attended the meeting. Youthful Southern Province Deputy Permanent Secretary Kennedy Mubanga, the clergy and representatives from traditional leaders were also present. And Director General of the Voice Organisation Faith Siatubotu said her organisation is set to go flat out in the Communities together with the Political party members to sensitise the masses on the

dangers of Political violence. Ms Siatubuto said belonging to a political party of one’s choice is a right but if violence continues to be perpetrated amongst political players it can lead to voter apathy. She went on to advise every youth to respect political leaders regardless of one’s political affiliation. She called on youths to desist from taking to Social Media to defame the President but instead seek redress when aggrieved.

SOME salons and barber shops have adhered to directives from Ministry of Health to ensure that they keep their surroundings clean and ensure that their customers wash their hands before attended to. Some of these shops have already displayed washing dishes and buckets at the entrances of their businesses to ensure that customers keep their hands clean as a preventive measure against the current coronavirus (COVID-19). One of the salon owners in Matero, Chimwemwe Chanda, said she would make sure that she adhered to directives from Government meant to protect citizens and businesses. Ms Chanda said she understood the consequences caused by the impact of COVID-19 if it was not quickly contained.

“As a citizen, I know I have a responsibility to help Government to prevent the spread of the virus. We have to be extra careful especially that we have already recorded some cases in the country, prevention is better than cure,” she said in an interview. Ms Chanda encouraged other businesses owners to put in place measures that would prevent the virus from spreading as it would have detrimental effects on their businesses. Another trader, Aaron Mvula, a barbar shop owner, said he would do everything possible to prevent the spread of the virus. Mr Mvula cautioned and encouraged all businesses that the ounce was on them to protect themselves as well as their customers. “We should all make sure that we keep our surroundings clean. It is for our own benefits,” he said.

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A 40-YEAR-OLD house wife of Kafue's Mtendere township walked away with K4,000 compensation after divorcing her husband of five years in the Kafue local court. Charity Ndamikwa sued Jackson Pande, 58, of the same area for divorce on grounds that her husband did not tell her that he was HIV positive. "My husband shifted from the bedroom and sleeps in the other room, he also comes home shaved and this has brought misunderstandings because I cannot do a thing as a wife, hence my coming to court," she said. She told local court magistrate, Rhoda Njapau, that her husband used to refuse and

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Charity Ndamikwa sued Jackson Pande, 58, of the same area for divorce on grounds that her husband did not tell her that he was HIV positive.

LUCY PHIRI writes @SunZambian

hide that he wasn't taking any anti-retroviral medication, not until she found them with him. "My husband never told me he took ARVs I just discovered when he dropped them down accidentally. I asked him, he refused that he wasn't taking them, he usually chases me from the house saying he no longer needs me," she said. She said her husband started having girlfriends too. She also said that he buys everything in the house including relish without consulting her as the person expected to prepare meal. On the other hand Pande denied the allegations saying his wife always threatens to kill him with a knife whenever they quarrel hence his behavior fearing he might be killed. "At one point we fought and

she carried a knife saying she will kill me, for this reason I am scared for my life hence I have brought the knife and the shirt I was wearing when she was beating me to court as proof," he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She has moved out of the house for more than four times, of which I never packed for her but always beg for her to come back. She doesn't want me to talk to women, its trouble if I do so. She beats me," he said. He said he was also tired of the marriage and wants a way out. The two married in 2015, does not have children together and dowry was paid. Divorce was granted and Pande was told to compensate Ndamikwa a K4,000 as compensation with k500 monthly effective April 30.

Footprint trail leads to goat thief MULENGA MUSONDA writes @SunZambian THE Choma Magistrates Court has sentenced a 35-year-old farmer to a 6 month jail term for stealing one Goat. This was in a matter in which Felix Siyanyanga was convicted of Theft in his own admission. Particulars of the offence are that Siyanyanga on 7 March 2020 in Choma stole 1 Goat valued at K400 the property of Racheal Siandembwe. When he appeared for plea before Resident Magistrate Ethel Phiri Friday morning, he willingly admitted the allegation made against him Court: How do you plead? Siyanyanga: I admit Court: You admit that you stole the said Goat? Siyanyanga: Yes Court: Were you owed anything? Siyanyanga: No

Court: Were you allowed to? Siyanyanga: No Court: Did you have any lawful justification or claim of right? Siyanyanga: No Court: Court records a plea of guilty. According to facts stated by Public Prosecutor Catherine Sakala, Siyanyanga was apprehended after footprint trails led the complainants to his house after noticing that the animal was missing. In mitigation, Siyanyanga pleaded with the Court to exercise lenience saying he was hungry and wanted to buy mealie meal from the proceeds of the loot. Magistrate Phiri in her sentencing observed that he was a first offender who readily admitted the charge and such deserved lenience. She thus sentenced him to 6 months simple imprisonment jail term with effect from date of sentencing.

Illegal muzzle loader, stolen cow lands Choma duo in court MULENGA MUSINDA writes @SunZambian

A 35-YEAR-OLD farmer has appeared in the Choma Magistrates Court for stealing one cow and unlawful possession of a Muzzle Loader without a license. This is in a matter in which Kebby Sikabale is facing two counts among them unlawful possession of firearm, whilst his co accused Evans Munachonga 25, is

charged with Sikabale for Stock Theft contrary to the Laws of Zambia. Allegations in Count 1 are that Sikabale jointly and whilst acting together with Munachonga stole 1 cow valued at K5,000 the property of Moomba Farms. In the second count Sikabale is charged alone with unlawful possession of a homemade shot gun without a license issued there-of. The alleged inci-

dents are said to have happened on 10 and 11 March 2020 in Choma. When the two appeared for plea before Magistrate Muyambango Munukayumbwa las week, they vehemently denied

the allegations levelled against them. The Court went ahead and recorded pleas of not guilty and granted the duo K3,000 bail each in their own recognisance with two suitable sureties to

be bound in the like sum. The matter was adjourned to 3 April 2020 for mention and fixing of trial date. The two were remanded in custody and will only be released after meeting the bail conditions.

Mattress, packet of salt chicken amongst stolen items

MULENGA MUSONDA writes @SunZambian IN what may appear to be preparation for a sumptuous meal, two farmers have been convicted by the Choma Magistrates Court for stealing 1 Chicken and a Packet of Salt among other things. This was in a matter in which Christopher Machaya 30, and Fenbal Kapole, 32, both farmers of Choma District stood charged for Burglary and Theft contrary to the Laws of Zambia. Particulars of the offence are that Machaya and Kapole jointly and whilst acting together broke into the dwelling house of John Sinduunda and stole there-in one bed, a mattress, a Chicken and a Packet of Salt all valued at K1,100. When the two appeared for plea before Magistrate Muyambango Munukayumbwa, they readily admitted the charge read against them. Court: A1 Do you

understand the charge read against you? Machaya: Yes Court: How do you plead? Machaya: I admit Court: Did you break into the complainantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house? Machaya: Yes Court: Did you take the mentioned items? Machaya: Yes Court: What time was it? Machaya: It was at night Court: Did the owner allow you? Machaya: No Court: Did you have any claim of right: Machaya: No The court went on to record pleas of guilty in respect to both accused persons after Kapole admitted that he stole because he wanted to raise money for his child's school fees from the proceeds of the loot. Magistrate Munukayumbwa thus convicted the two and sentenced them to 6 months imprisonment with hard labour with effect from date of arrest.

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MS SAKALA > contacted the school authorities but they had told her that nothing of that nature ever happened at the school.

OT long ago President Edgar Lungu addressed Parliament on the progress made in the implementation of the national principles and valued enshrined in the republican Constitution. The President made a clarion call that without observing the principles and values across the ages it will be difficult for Zambia to attain its social and economic development goals. Indeed, the behaviour of citizens has a bearing on how to approach work and interpret national policies and programmes. People who do not understand, let alone observe the society’s principles and values cannot appreciate their roles in national; development and in keeping the country as a cohesive whole. The national principles and values that are in the Constitution must be taught to the younger generation so that they can grow with them. This is because the youth are the future leaders of this great country. It is therefore worrying to be receiving reports of young people engaging in activities that reflect a lack of morals.

Where are our morals

17 pupils at a boarding school in Chibombo district in Central Province were expelled from the school after allegedly engaging in a sex party.

One such reports is that 17 pupils at a boarding school in Chibombo district in Central Province were expelled from the school after allegedly engaging in a sex party. According to a witness who is also a pupil at the school, which he named, the incident happened on the International Women’s Day. We feel this report should have been investigated with the seriousness it deserved. Making a phone call to school authorities is not a wise way of verifying such reports because they might want to protect their jobs and the school’s reputation. The eyewitness said the male pupils went to the female dormitory and started having sex with their female counterparts, but one of the girls who was not part of the ‘arrangement’ alerted the school authorities who rushed to the dormitory and found the pupils in the act. This kind of behavour is not expected among school pupils. What kind of adults will they grow into if they can engage in such immoral behaviour? The scanty details of what happened smack of a hush-up, and we urge the office the district

commissioner in Chibombo to take up this matter and ensure education authorities at district

Pupils should realise that such behavior puts them at many risks such as contracting HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). It could also lead to unplanned pregnancies. level verify the information. He said the boarding master who rushed to the dormitory locked the door and alerted other members of staff. “The male pupils were trapped in the girls’ dormitory. They

were fished out by the teachers and other staff. The incident has shocked the school and surrounding community,” the source said. He said all the pupils had been expelled from the school. But when contacted for a comment Chibombo district education board secretary (DEBS) Belina Moono referred queries to the district education standards officer, Lembani Sakala. Ms Sakala said she had contacted the school authorities but they had told her that nothing of that nature ever happened at the school. But the source insisted that the incident happened and said authorities might have quietly recalled the pupils to hush up the scandal and save the school’s reputation. How did the male pupils manage to sneak into the girls’ dormitory? Could here have been a prior arrangement and the girls were just waiting for the male colleagues to come in the night? Pupils should realise that such behavior puts them at many risks such as contracting HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). It could also lead to unplanned pregnancies. We urge the office of the dis-

trict education board secretary (DEBS), the DCs office and the chief to get down to the bottom of this scandal and establish the veracity of the report. We are also appalled by the posting on social media of a video in which a daughter of a prominent Zambian, businessman and former minister is posing completely naked. We know that when children are on their own they engage in many pranks, but as long as they are in a restricted space there is no harm. It is part of the privileges of childhood. It is, however, different if what the children are doing in privacy when they are in a confined place is shared with the public. What was the motive for posting on social media a video taken in a room where children were engaging in child play? On the other hand the girl should also not have allowed her pranks to be captured on phone because she would have no control over the material. Let us teach our children to appreciate that there is life and peace in observing national principles and values such as patriotism and national unity, morality and ethics.

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COVID-19 Says About Us By JOHN FEFFER A crisis, according to self-help and leadership books, reveals much about a person’s character. The same can be said of a nation’s character. Since the latest pandemic began to spread out of China in 2020, countries responded in very different ways to the challenge. There was ingenuity, inflexibility, incomprehension, and sheer incompetence. Diversity can be a beautiful thing. But not when it comes to battling a pandemic. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. There was supposed to have been greater uniformity in response. After the 2003 SARS epidemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) came up with new guidelines for responding to such outbreaks. These regulations are legally binding, and 196 countries signed the framework agreement. Unfortunately, as Selam Gebrekidan reports in The New York Times: Dozens of countries are flouting the international regulations and snubbing their obligations. Some have failed to report outbreaks to the organization, as required. Others have instituted international travel restrictions, against the advice of the WHO, and without notifying global health officials.

a checkpoint at a bridge to get chemotherapy. A man with kidney disease jumped to his death from his apartment balcony after he couldn’t get access to health facilities for dialysis. And at least 10 people died after a hotel being used as a quarantine facility collapsed. Citizens and journalists who have been trying to tell the full story of China’s war on the coronavirus still face censorship and harassment.

Let’s take a look at a few countries — China, South Korea, Italy, and the United States — to see how the diversity of responses to the current coronavirus crisis showcases the best and the worst that these political systems have to offer.

The Chinese government’s actions were not arbitrarily autocratic. “China’s leaders did fumble at the very start, yet in short order they acted far more decisively than many democratically elected leaders have to date,” Ian Johnson writes in The New York Times. “Authoritarian or not, they also want the public’s approval. Chinese leaders may not face voters, but they, too, care about legitimacy, and that hinges on performance for them as well.” And it’s not as if the democratic countries that eventually followed China’s example put their decisions to a vote.

THE PANDEMIC BEGINS China has treated the coronavirus as if it were an outbreak of political dissidence. It has deployed the power of the state to stamp out the infection. It has censored dissenting voices. And, as is often the case with blunt-force approaches, it has achieved some success. While the virus is multiplying rapidly around the world, it seems to have been contained in China. But there have been some disturbing side effects. After some initial confusion, to put it charitably, the government moved quickly to shut down the epicenter of infection in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. The first case was reported on December 31 of last year, the new disease was identified as a coronavirus on January 7, the first death occurred in China on January 9, and Wuhan was under quarantine by January 23. That two-week period between the first death and the announcement of the quarantine might seem like a long time. But on January 24, the government was still reporting only 830 infections. And, in some quarters, China was criticized for overreacting by shutting everything down, from schools to factories. One week later, however, the number of infections had climbed to nearly 10,000.

The quarantine methods wouldn’t show much effect until mid-February, when new infections began to level off. On February 18, Beijing reported around 72,000 infections. A month later, it had only reached around 81,000. The government had the centralized authority to enforce the quarantine. It shut down internal transportation, canceled Lunar New Year celebrations, and shuttered Shanghai Disneyland. It deployed drones to warn groups of people gathering in public to disperse and go home. It placed millions of uninfected people in what amounts to house arrest, allowing only one member of a family household to go out every two days. The government also attempted to censor the first reports of the new disease.

Li Wenliang, a doctor in Wuhan, posted on social media on December 30 the first warnings about the coronavirus. The police brought him in for questioning and forced him to sign a statement that he had made “false comments” that had “severely disturbed the social order.” He later died of the disease. The quarantine methods produced their own casualties. As Human Rights Watch notes: A boy with cerebral palsy died because no one took care of him after his father was taken to be quarantined. A woman with leukemia died after being turned away by several hospitals because of concerns about cross-infection. A mother desperately pleaded to the police to let her leukemia-stricken daughter through

Meanwhile, the success of China’s approach owes as much to the public’s sense of responsibility as it does to the government’s autocratic methods. Writes Tony Perman, who was quarantined in Shanghai, “Certainly the reality of authoritarian control, the subservience of the individual to the state or the collective, and the pressure to conform made widespread habit change both more feasible and acceptable, even if due to fear of retribution. But there was a palpable ‘all for one and one for all’ ethos.” THE SOUTH KOREAN WAY Even before South Korea experienced its first coronavirus case, the Korean firm Kogene Biotech was getting its test kits ready for production. Soon thereafter, the South Korean government gave regulatory approval for their use in the country.

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60-70 percent of the population will likely be infected before the outbreak is over. The Finns started preparing for the worst back in January, even taking steps to allow people to get communicable disease insurance in the event of quarantine. The hardest hit country, however, has been Italy. As soon as two Chinese tourists in Rome tested positive at the end of January, Italy declared a state of emergency and stopped flights from China. When the virus appeared again, just outside the northern city of Milan, the patient was originally thought to have been infected by a colleague returning from China. But the colleague tested negative. The virus, in this case, more likely came from Germany.

As with China, there were some initial missteps, such as when the Moon Jae-in prematurely declaredthe virus contained in mid-February. But the hyper-connected country has been able to practice social distancing with relative ease as people went online to work remotely, order groceries, and maintain contact with friends. The South Korean approach also seems to have worked. The rate of infection has leveled off, and the death rate remains very low at less than 1 percent. Instead of the draconian quarantining that China implemented, South Korea has relied on technology, a rapid response aided by ppali-ppali (fast-fast) culture, lots of testing and follow-up, and a general spirit of compliance. ITALIAN FIASCO European countries have responded in quite different ways to the virus. Several countries, including a number

STAGE ONE: IT WON’T HAPPEN HERE. Stage Two: It’s happening here, but it’s the fault of foreigners. Stage Three: It’s happening here, but it won’t be as bad as elsewhere so we don’t need to take the necessary precautions. Stage Four: It’s happening here, and it might turn out to be a problem, but it’s best to address the developing crisis haphazardly rather than at a coordinated federal level. STAGE FIVE: UH-OH.

Two other factors have aggravated the crisis in Italy. There’s the scofflaw tradition whereby many Italians flouted the initial lockdown declared in the northern region to crowd the rail stations and flee town by any means. One woman even paid over $1,300 to take a taxi from Milan to Rome.

After initially praising Xi Jinping’s hardline response to the crisis, Trump and his allies reversed course and started to blame China when the infections began to mount domestically.

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

Soon enough, the South Korean government switched to testing overdrive. On February 26, the country began drivethrough testing. By March 9, nearly 200,000 people had been tested for the disease. The government is also, more controversially, using a phone app that relies on GPS to track those in quarantine and make sure that they maintain their self-separation. A rigorous triage has sent all but the most serious 10 percent of the infected to recover at home, lessening the strain on the medical system.

There have been five stages of American exceptionalism when it comes to the coronavirus.

Trump has been the leader of the pack at all five stages. On January 22, just as the Chinese government was preparing to quarantine Wuhan, Trump said about the prospects of a coronavirus outbreak in the United States, “we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”

In a head-to-head comparison between South Korea’s widespread test-andtrack approach versus Italy’s attempted lockdown approach, the former appears to be far more effective.

that had earlier been so hostile to immigrants, quickly moved to close their borders. Germany has been characteristically blunt about the situation, with Chancellor Angela Merkel warning that

of humanity.

The real problem was neither China nor Germany. It was the Italian hospital that grossly mishandled that initial case. The sufferer, according to The Washington Post, “sought medical attention multiple times, starting on February 14, but he wasn’t diagnosed until February 21 (after he infected his wife, hospital staff, several patients and others).”

Also, Italy has the second highest proportion of seniors in the world: 23 percent of the population is over 65. Only Japan has an older population. That helps to explain the high mortality rate of the disease in the Mediterranean country. In China, the mortality rate is 3.8 percent. In Italy, it’s nearly double at 7.3 percent.

The first cases in South Korea originated from China, which reawakened significant anti-Chinese sentiment that had been dormant since the resolution of the last trade dispute in November 2017. By the middle of February, however, a much more significant outbreak of the disease could be traced to one of the many cultlike religious sects in the country, and infections quickly rose into the thousands.

Donald Trump has been an exceptional leader when it comes to addressing the coronavirus: exceptionally incompetent. He has exemplified the proud tradition of American exceptionalism, by which Americans believe that they are an exception to the rules that apply to the rest

Instead of following the South Korean example and making sure that testing kits were available, the Trump administration squandered the window of opportunity, By the time test kits were sent out, it was late in the game and those first kits were, in any case, faulty. Writes David Leonhardt in The New York Times, “The Trump administration could have begun to use a functioning test from the World Health Organization, but didn’t. It could have removed regulations that prevented private hospitals and labs from quickly developing their own tests, but didn’t. The inaction meant that the United States fell behind South Korea, Singapore and China in fighting the virus.” Trump has finally awoke to the severity of the problem, no doubt as a result of having close brushes with infected people at the Conservative Political Action Conference and with a delegation from Brazil that visited him at Mar-a-Lago. But he has acted erratically and dangerously. His European travel ban was done without consultation with allies and put Americans hastily returning from Europe at the mercy of unprepared airport security. But perhaps the most unsettling failure has been the lack of federal coordination, with different messages coming from different parts of government and states left to manage things as best they can. Governors have clashed with the president; mayors have clashed with governors. In his most recent punt, Trump told governors not to wait for federal assistance when it comes to acquiring necessary ventilators, but “try getting it yourselves.” Get it yourselves. That kind of message is grimly appropriate in a country without national health care. With a message like that coming from the top, it’s no wonder that Americans are stocking up on rice and toilet paper, like people around the world — but more pointedly, guns and body armor as well. If it’s “all for one and one for all” in other countries, in Trump’s America, it’s “all against all.” This is what happens when you run on a platform devoted to the “deconstruction of the administrative state,” as Steve Bannon put it so colorfully. First you get deconstruction when Trump takes office. Then you get destruction, when Trump’s minions go to work. Finally, when all the competent people have been escorted out of government, you get uh-oh. In this sense, the coronavirus is nothing new. Americans have been living in the uh-oh stage ever since November 8, 2016. SOURCE: counterpunch.org

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