How sensitive are North Koreans to the flu?
I've been thinking a lot about the North Korean problem lately, and there's one question I just can't answer: what is the immune status of the average North Korean soldier, given their decades of isolation? What kinds of bacteria and viruses do they have there? Do they have computer-viruses??!?!
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
The isolation is hardly hermetic. I doubt it's a significant issue.
The black market economy happens mostly on the Chinese border, so they'd be exposed to much the same stuff as the Chinks above them.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
True, but a lot depends on the internal mobility of North Koreans. Which I suspect isn't that great. The border folks may have more immunity, but surely there are people away from the borders who simply have no significant contact to build immunity to certain things.
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