The virtual source  Pandem-ic  featured two articles this week: The Surge in East Asia and the Pacific . Note how the gold line, which represents East Asia and the Pacific, jumped around January of this year.   Effectively, the Omicron/Delta wave overcame that region, irregardless of what government did. The second article was  South Korea Defies Pandemic Records . There is a comparison with the U.S. and U.K. However, fatalities in South Korea remained low After S. Korea showed a bump in new cases during the first few months of the pandemic, by the end of April in 2020, new cases dropped to zero. While cases went up and down for the next two years, S. Korea, like Japan and many countries of the Orient, kept them at low levels. Then, in the spring of 2022, everything went haywire, and this region of the world jumped in new cases per capita, and joined the list at the top. More so, in January of this year S. Korea and Japan began to lead the world till today.  However, the mortality rate