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Coronavirus: North Korea’s First Confirmed Patient Shot Dead by Nobody: 10:29am On Feb 28, 2020
To loosely quote Stalin, “No Patient Zero, No Problem.”

For weeks, the outside world has speculated about the severity of the coronavirus outbreak in North Korea. And the entire time, North Korea has persisted in insisting that it doesn’t have a coronavirus problem, even growing furious at a public offer of assistance from the State Department.

For all we know about the North Korean virus response, the government might have simply brainwashed the North Korean people into believing that loyalty to the Workers Party and Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un grants immunity to the virus. However, there have been whispers.

A few weeks ago, there were whispers that one of the first coronavirus patients in the country was brutally killed by the regime after escaping from a (probably unimaginably brutal) quarantine. Moreover, according to the rumor, he was executed via the traditional North Korean punishment of extirpating criminals by shooting them with an anti-aircraft slug.

Now, IB Times, a shady English-language news website with a reputation for occasionally scooping its more cautious competitors, is reporting that Kim Jong Un allegedly ordered the execution of the country’s first coronavirus patient. IBT cited an anonymous twitter account called “Secret Beijing”, claiming it has a history of reporting accurately.

According to Secret Beijing, an anonymous social media commentator, who terms himself as an analyst on China affairs, the patient was shot dead. The story is still developing and there is still no clarity on the details of the patient executed by North Korea.

The account points out that such brutal tactics are in line with the regime’s reputation.

It had been suggested last week that the patient had left quarantine to visit a public bath, and was killed for doing so. The victim caught the virus in China, then brought it back to NK. Pyongyang reportedly told the WHO that it had tested 141 suspected cases of coronavirus, and that all came up negative.

The South Korean press has reported that several cases have been identified in the North, with some of them leading to death, mirroring what’s happening in Iran’s obviously overwhelmed health-care system.

It’s believed that fear of the virus has kept KJU from appearing in public over the past few weeks.

https://www.independent.ng/coronavirus-north-koreas-first-confirmed-patient-shot-dead/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook
Re: Coronavirus: North Korea’s First Confirmed Patient Shot Dead by Nobody: 10:33am On Feb 28, 2020
Zero patient, zero spread
Re: Coronavirus: North Korea’s First Confirmed Patient Shot Dead by daddytime(m): 10:33am On Feb 28, 2020
This sadist orobo rocketman no wan hear oh
Re: Coronavirus: North Korea’s First Confirmed Patient Shot Dead by LUGBE: 10:34am On Feb 28, 2020
Terrible
Re: Coronavirus: North Korea’s First Confirmed Patient Shot Dead by scrolldown88: 10:35am On Feb 28, 2020
If this is true then I must say it is the most foolish course of action to take. Killing him doesn't automatically stops the virus from spreading. Nay! It helps the case of the virus. If he stays alive he can help in tracking down and monitor all those he had come in contact with...both primary and secondary contacts. Now the man is dead, and he may have infected others. How do they now intend to trace them

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Re: Coronavirus: North Korea’s First Confirmed Patient Shot Dead by Nobody: 10:36am On Feb 28, 2020
This is how it should be.
This virus should find its way into Aso Rock, we have an assignment there for her.

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