Nopants_Jedi t1_ja5zftq wrote
Damn, it must be a lot worse than we think/know
venom259 t1_ja5zq4o wrote
Covid hit them hard.
I wouldn't doubt that what farmers they had were hit especially hard.
Nopants_Jedi t1_ja5zzm0 wrote
Yeah a disease that's only fairly deadly but can also be debilitating in a malnourished population with shit infrastructure and crappy healthcare....what could go wrong?
venom259 t1_ja60eo8 wrote
And now that I'm thinking about it, China did suffer several debilitating floods last year which spiked their crop production.
That usually translates to less food for North Korea.
xenoghost1 t1_ja6cdt3 wrote
but tankies on twitter kept praising their ballistic LARPing
guess now we know why they were launching missiles, shame those don't feed people as Dwight Eisenhower use to say.
Ok-Welder-4816 t1_ja651fd wrote
But their population is also very rural and spread out, with little travel or interaction outside of local communities (you need a travel pass to even leave your village), and demographics that skew young.
Although the military could be an important vector due to their omnipresence and relative mobility. But they're also all young and relatively fit.
I would think the elites, living their somewhat more modern lives in Pyongyang, would be the most at risk. I assume only the very very elite (i.e. Kim and friends) have access to the kind of healthcare needed to offset the risk of living in an urban setting.
LuangPrabangisinLaos t1_ja92q3p wrote
It's a centralized economy with a black market. Ultimately all communities intermingle, and every village has weekly meetings for self criticism.
Ok-Welder-4816 t1_jaa678o wrote
Sure, some brave folks are involved in the black market, but not most people.
They still have less interaction overall.
djokov t1_jac3nzb wrote
Incorrect, most people are involved in some sort of black market trade. The North Korean jangmadang are not like typical black markets and many North Koreans depend on their existence. The NK government on the whole tends to tolerate the markets, though they impose regulations on some goods and restrict who are allowed to work in vendor stalls.
MoonManMooner t1_ja7u2o7 wrote
North Korea still collects human waste for fertilizer.
They most likely infected everyone under the sub by doing this during the pandemic.
LuangPrabangisinLaos t1_ja92hl7 wrote
Don't forget heavy cigarette smokers.
Nopants_Jedi t1_ja9bt2d wrote
True, we do always kind of gloss over that aspect.
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