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Workplace: The government recommends that one-third of a company’s employees be made remote. (Until later alert levels, the South Korean government does not force companies to send workers home and instead relies on them to follow recommendations and do their best.)

This doesn’t mean I’m desperate to get ripped like The Rock. I’d just like to get up off the couch without every joint in my body crunching and cracking. If only I’d taken care of myself earlier.

A few weeks ago, a colleague came into my office and announced, “Damn, it looks like things are starting to get bad again.” He turned his phone toward me. It was opened to Worldometer’s Covid-19 tracking page. I scrolled down to select the country we live in: South Korea. “How many days has it been going up?” I asked. “It was 303 then 343 and 363 cases today. They’ve just increased the alert level to 1.5.”

To understand it a little better, I recently sat down with two charts released by the Korean government — the first by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security and the second by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The first one gives a basic outline of what sets each alert level in motion. The second provides more exact details of what restrictions will be implemented by separating the ramifications of each alert level into seven categories: mask-wearing, social gatherings, sporting events, public transportation, schools, religious services, and workplace. By combining these two charts, with the help of a translator, here is a basic layout of what these alert levels mean.

Conditions: The conditions from level 1.5 do not improve and it appears that the virus is not being contained enough to reverse the spread. This level is also triggered if daily cases are over 300 for a week or when more than two cities are experiencing alert levels of 1.5 (where cases haven’t gone down or there is still stress on the medical system).

My father tells me a story of how he was in the grocery store the other day and saw a man walking around without a mask. “He looked at everyone he passed as though he was waiting for someone to say something. It was so wild. He was just itching for a fight. I can’t understand some people.” Similarly, I listened to an interview recently with Patty Schachtner, a senator from Wisconsin who’d had a person at a grocery store tell her to “take that fuckin’ thing off” in reference to her mask. Meanwhile, she is busy trying to prepare for the worst-case scenarios in the rural corners of her state by renting freezer trucks for when the body count overwhelms the morgues.

Workplace: Employees at high-risk workplaces like call centers must wear masks, and the government recommends that companies have as many employees as possible work from home.

At home, I turned on the news in America. I listened to an interview with a crying nurse. She was crying because the number of cases in America had risen exponentially, and, on her drive home after spending her day watching people die from the virus, she passed bar after bar packed with maskless people. She was talking about how helpless she felt, desperate for people to understand the severity and horror she was experiencing every day.

That night, I stopped at the grocery store on the way home to pick up some extra food. If cases keep rising, I know restaurants will likely start reverting to takeout orders only and closing earlier. My weekend appeared likely to be an isolated one.

General response: The government disinfects high-risk areas, such as bus and train stations, schools, etc., and stresses social distancing, hand-washing, and mask-wearing.

When I Skype with my family back home in Massachusetts, I am amazed by the stories they share. The U.S. appears as an alternate reality. My brothers are lucky enough to have work that allowed them to go fully remote. One of my brothers has a baby on the way, and he and his wife are frightened to even leave the house. My grandparents shop for groceries in hazmat suits. My mom is concerned about family members who are convinced Covid-19 is a conspiracy designed to steal the election. My parents want to celebrate the holidays with family but can’t trust that all of the members of their “pod” are listening to and taking recommended precautions.

Masks are not just encouraged in Korea. If I am out and about without my mask, I receive an $85 fine. No ifs, ands, or buts. This also happens indoors. Unless I am eating or drinking in a restaurant, the mask stays on, or you guessed it: a fine comes my way. South Korea has made an art of its Covid-19 protocols with a series of five alert levels. Each one goes into effect based on how many cases occur in a certain area. The alert system provides a baseline that tells us “when X happens, Y is likely to happen.” It is a straightforward approach that means I am not blindsided by regulations. Things are broken down and explained.

Conditions: The medical system is able to control the current caseload. This level is put in place when the virus surpasses 100 cases in an urban area or 30 cases in a rural area every day for one week. This level can be implemented sooner depending on the age of those infected — for example, if more than 40 people over the age of 60 in an urban area or 10 people over the age of 60 in a rural area get sick.

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