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| On the afternoon of the 9th, three days before New Year’s Day, the nation’s largest holiday, returnees are moving to the bus stop at Seoul Station in Bongnae-dong, Jung-gu. The quarantine authorities maintained social distancing, prohibiting private gatherings of five or more people, including immediate family members, until the 14th. 2021.2.9/News1 © News1 Reporter Park Jung-ho |
“If you report more than 5 people at your in-laws, you would suspect that I did it, right?”
“If you tell me the address and time by direct message, I will report it on your behalf.”
Although the quarantine authorities extended the ban on private gatherings for more than 5 people during the Lunar New Year holidays and recommended refraining from visiting their hometown, daughter-in-laws are having a growing concern over visiting their in-laws. On-line cafes have been posted one after another asking them to report in-laws of in-laws with more than five people as violating the quarantine rules.
According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government on the 10th, the ban on private gatherings for more than 5 people will be maintained until the 14th, the last day of the Lunar New Year holiday. If even a direct family member stays away, if more than 5 people gather, it violates the quarantine rules and is subject to a fine of 100,000 won or less.
Seoul City’s Citizen Health Bureau chief Park Yoo-mi said at a regular briefing on Corona 19 on the previous day, “If contact increases during the Lunar New Year holiday, there is a risk of re-proliferation,” and “Please refrain from visiting your hometown and relatives and traveling in order to reduce movement and contact.”
However, daughter-in-laws agree that it is not easy to say that they are not going unless their in-laws tell them not to come first.
◇ Daughters-in-law “Even though meetings with more than 5 people are prohibited, the in-laws tell me to come”
A, 51, who lives in Seoul, goes down to his in-laws in Chungbuk during the Lunar New Year holidays. This is because the mother-in-law set up a ritual by herself when she didn’t go down two months ago during her father-in-law rite. Mr. A, who became uncomfortable, decided to hold a ritual at his in-laws this New Year’s Eve.
My daughter-in-law B, living in Mapo-gu, wrote in an online café, saying, “I don’t know why my in-laws and my parents watch the news more often than we do and are worried about the daycare center, but I don’t know why they pretend not to know during the holidays.”
The daughter-in-law said that if more than five people gather, they are also worried about infection. My daughter-in-law C wrote, “I don’t hate going to my wife’s house, but I don’t want to do it in the country, and it takes me to go violently. I haven’t been in private gatherings and don’t ride public transportation, so I’m careful, but I’m worried.” .
The problem is that it is difficult to crack down when more than 5 people gather in the home. Given this situation, there is an opinion that it would be good to enforce the crackdown, and even talks among daughter-in-laws that report meetings of five or more people to each other.
D, the daughter-in-law, said, “The mother-in-law said that the baby is young (in the ban on meetings of more than 5 people), and that it is not included.”
Some online cafe users are commenting that if you provide your address, you will report it instead. One cafe user wrote, “I have a lot of daughter-in-laws going to my inevitably this time, so if I see a meeting with more than 5 people, I will report all of them,” he wrote, “I hope someone report me.”
In some cases, lies are used. The daughter-in-law E, who lives in Seoul, said, “There are confirmed cases at the company in both families, so I decided to tell you that I should quarantine myself because I am close contact. I am sorry that I am lying, but I do not want to go anywhere now.”
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| On the morning of the 9th, the morning of the cold wave, medical staff are collecting samples of citizens who visited for the diagnostic test of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) at the screening clinic established at the Dalseo-gu Health Center in Daegu. 2021.2.9/News1 © News1 Reporter Jeong Sik |
◇ Experts “Crackdown on banning meetings with more than 5 people, no reality”
Experts pointed out the effectiveness of the crackdown on banning meetings with more than 5 people. It is not easy to gather with less than 5 people during the Lunar New Year holidays, so it is explained that the limit on the number of people should be lifted to a level that can be kept realistically.
Eun-mi Cheon, a professor of respiratory medicine at Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, said, “We cannot monitor the gathering of more than 5 people in the home.” “Rather, it would be more realistic for people to keep the standards of meetings from 5 or more to less than 7 during the Lunar New Year holidays. “How to make it possible.”
Jeong Ki-seok, a professor of respiratory medicine at Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, also pointed out, “It’s the same as saying not to keep the limit for meetings of 5 or more people. Rather, it is necessary to provide realistic measures such as allowing some immediate family members to gather within the limits of the metropolitan area.” did.
Experts say that it is more important to observe the quarantine rules when meeting, such as wearing a mask.
Professor Chun advised, “It is important to thoroughly wear a mask and eat separately as much as possible.” Professor Jeong also emphasized, “Families meeting after a long time should keep a distance so that they sit down and eat to a minimum,” and emphasized, “Because the weather has warmed, indoor ventilation should be frequent.”