> Are the people divided about whether it was a good idea to wait until new cases got this low before making decisions about moving forward?
People are generally agreeing that it's a good idea to wait b.c. they also think that there's still the possibility that a new wave of outbreak can happen.
> Or is there very broad support for the kind of discipline it takes to wait until May 5 despite the cases being so low already?
The policy of dropping the 'social distancing' was decided by the KCDC (consistently have less than 30 cases / cases which infection routes are unknown should be less than 5% of all new cases) on April 12th when the count has dropped less than 30 for the first time.
The government is still saying that if a new outbreak happens within the next two weeks, the day might be pushed back. It's still very elastic.
> Have people's opinions about the appropriate level of response become politicized? Have the facts and statistics and science of it all become politicized?
It's only targeting the people of Seoul, but 97% of all people agreed that the 'social distancing' policy should be dropped sometime soon, but 64% also agreed that April 19th was too fast - hence the May 5th decision.
People are generally agreeing that it's a good idea to wait b.c. they also think that there's still the possibility that a new wave of outbreak can happen.
> Or is there very broad support for the kind of discipline it takes to wait until May 5 despite the cases being so low already?
The policy of dropping the 'social distancing' was decided by the KCDC (consistently have less than 30 cases / cases which infection routes are unknown should be less than 5% of all new cases) on April 12th when the count has dropped less than 30 for the first time.
The government is still saying that if a new outbreak happens within the next two weeks, the day might be pushed back. It's still very elastic.
> Have people's opinions about the appropriate level of response become politicized? Have the facts and statistics and science of it all become politicized?
It's only targeting the people of Seoul, but 97% of all people agreed that the 'social distancing' policy should be dropped sometime soon, but 64% also agreed that April 19th was too fast - hence the May 5th decision.