so how is everyone surviving the pandemic

[littlejohn]

Well, population of S Korea is 51 million and change, so far less than 500 people have died of it.  Bud (mundane) with a Korean spouse says simple.  Go in anyplace they take your temp.  Get off an airplane, they take your temp.  Any question you get tested.  Coming into the country - which isn't easy unless you live there - you quarantine for two weeks, and they check randomly daily.  Test positive, ALL your contacts are traced and quarantined.  Don't want to quarantine?  You quarantine in a cell.  Admittedly their laws and customs make all this easy, but it works.  He said when they got off the plane from NY and headed to the apartment to quarantine they were each given a box of snacks, food items, games, and masks.  He wasn't surprised that NY had so many cases and deaths.