[Pick] “Hate is not helping in quarantine” … Movement for the treatment of sexual minorities.

As the Corona19 infection spreads around Itaewon Club visitors, some argue that an environment must be established for sexual minorities to be tested safely.

On day 7, it was rumored that sexual minorities were concentrated in the Itaewon club, visited by a certain confirmer, and stimulating articles were published with the expression “ Itaewon gay club ”, which said that “ they are guilty of break the quarantine system. ” Korea’s guilt has exploded. In fact, there was also a sarcastic slogan on the front door of an apartment in Bupyeong-gu, Incheon, saying, “I wish I could go to the business and dance and become a definitive person.”

Professor Seung-Seop Kim, professor of health policy management at the University of Korea, is concerned about ‘going out’ (sexual orientation or sexual identity is forcibly revealed by others) and hateful sexual minorities who fear be denied access to screening and treatment. I stated that I would take the initiative in doing so.

The day after the related article was published, Professor Kim said on his social media, “I am going to work as a doctor at the Corona 19 Selective Clinic at the Eunpyeong-gu Public Health Center in Seoul from 3 pm to 7 pm this Sunday. ” “We will do our best to be screened without any stigma or discrimination (including sexual minorities).”

In addition to Professor Kim, other experts in the field of infection also reinforced this view that the one-sided atmosphere of social aversion does not lead to prevention.

Professor Kim Woo-ju, professor of infectious medicine at Guro Hospital, University of Korea, criticized that “the place and time a patient has been visited only needs to be disclosed, but personal privacy, such as identity, is repeated. of genre”. Prime Minister Jung Se-gyun also said, “If the contact person is afraid of the accusation and evades the diagnostic test, the damage will remain in our society at large.”

Jung Eun-kyung, head of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said yesterday (10) about various concerns about disclosure of patients’ personal information. I will do it “.

This is the “News Selection”.

(Photo = Yonhap News, Professor Seung-Seop Kim Facebook)