President Moon Jae-in is speaking at the emergency Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters meeting in response to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) held at the government office in Seoul on the 13th. Newsis
“I express my concern as the society is creating a competitive atmosphere for the first place in the world as our society should get the vaccine for the first time in the world.”
This is a speech briefing on the 23rd by Son Young-rae, head of the strategic planning division of the Central Accident Control Center and a spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The criticism that’the vaccine was late to secure’ was regarded as’the evil of first-class attention’. The fact that Korea’s vaccine security volume compared to the population ranks 34th out of 37 countries by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) evaporated.
Moreover, the government’s efforts to protect the lives of the people deserve to be’No. 1 in the world’. There is a lot of criticism that Sohn, the government’s’mouth’, said he was trying to defend the government accountability theory that missed the golden time of the vaccine introduction.
This is a prime example of a’party government office failure’ that aggravates vaccine anxiety. The recent attitudes of the Party Administration to explain the vaccine supply and demand status are ① slow, ② wrong, and ③ nervous.
① President Moon’s overly belated probation
President Moon Jae-in said, “We will start vaccination against the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) sooner than in other countries,” at a five-factor meeting on the 22nd. President Moon gave a message about securing a vaccine only 14 days after the UK started vaccination for the first time in the world on the 8th and criticized “what is our government doing?” In the meantime, about 40 countries have started vaccination or have announced that vaccination will be given within the year.
Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun said in a broadcast interview on the 20th, “I will start vaccination at the latest in February and at the latest in March.” As the vaccine anxiety spread, Prime Minister Chung decided to belatedly explain to the public as a representative of the government, and it is said that he did not hesitate to appear on the broadcast on Sunday morning. Prime Minister Jung showed a relatively honest attitude, saying, “In July, there were about 100 confirmed cases in Korea, so I did not think to increase dependence on the vaccine.”
It was two days after that President Moon, the chief officer of the vaccine confusion, came to the fore. On the same day, the Blue House released’President Moon’s remarks on this year’s vaccines’, emphasizing that’President Moon was passionate about developing and securing vaccines’. However, only the fact that’President Moon concentrated on developing a domestic vaccine until September, but missed the right time to introduce the vaccine, was revealed.’
Professor Lim Seong-hak of the University of Seoul pointed out that “President Moon has the advantage of being cautious and cautious, but he rarely communicates with the people he promised in the early days of the regime.”
② Confusion that grows with’wrong facts’ and’unreasonable logic’
President Moon said on the 22nd, “It is inevitable to get vaccinations first in countries that have supported vaccine production.” However, Japan, Canada, Australia, Chile, Singapore, New Zealand, Israel, and Mexico, which are not vaccine producing countries, either secured or pre-purchased the vaccine. President Moon’s’misleading explanation’ raised concerns that, “Isn’t the chief executive of state affairs misjuring the situation because he did not receive a proper report?”
On the 23rd, the government even raised an unreasonable counterargument that’securing the vaccine procrastination will be a phone call.’ “I am very fortunate that I was able to have the opportunity to observe the problems occurring in countries (who get the vaccine first) for a month or two.”
Kim Woo-joo, a professor at Korea University Guro Hospital, said, “In the US, celebrities such as President-elect Joe Biden are preemptively receiving the vaccine and promoting safety, but we are going backwards.” No, it is an unnecessary story that makes vaccination difficult in the future.”
③ Another’blame’… ‘People vs. the press’ split
The party administration is confronting with the old logic that’there is no problem with the government’s response to vaccines, but the media raises anxiety through distorted reports.’ It aims to disparage the uneasy people as’a being misleading by media reports’ and to split them into’public vs. media’. It is reported that at the regular meeting of the high-ranking party government office held on the 20th, it was reported that the policy of responding hard to media reports by raising the agenda of’Responding to Corona 19 Fake News’ was unusual.
Democratic Party Representative Lee Nak-yeon said in a meeting of the Party’s Supreme Council on the 23rd, “During critical times, the opposition party and some media are mobilizing unfounded ghost stories and distorted statistics to promote public unrest.” Cheong Wa Dae’s medical secretary Tak Hyun-min also added to the Social Network Service (SNS), saying, “I want to call the names (reporters) whenever I see articles in which intentional misunderstandings, homes, and sometimes unhesitating lies are in order.”
Ma Sang-hyuk, vice president of the Korean Society of Vaccines, criticized, “If you lose the war, the commander should say that it is your responsibility, not an excuse.” .
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