february
Despite things slowly going back to normal by this time, the pandemic had gotten so powerful to the point of reaching to this extent - when it infected the leader of the pandemic era himself.
February 15, 2022. Big Hit Music said hello.
Weverse shared a memo on that day, informing us that after 807 days of leading into the pandemic, Cara had contracted the virus. I was not surprised, since a lot of people had gotten it by this time - including celebrities. However, since the very beginning of the pandemic we all wished it never happened to him. It’s been one year and three months since the last time a leader had contracted the virus. We were hoping that he would be the last.
Since there was no activity to work on following the STAY debut (other than the next event), I started to feel bored. I feel like I needed to do something about it.
So in spite of his condition, for the first time since his re-debut, he had to be sent to another hiatus. For the very first time, engagement with the boys went down to the remaining four.
I was curious. I went to check the situation for February 15, 2022. Turns out, while our country had decreasing cases, the same cannot be said for his home country, South Korea. About 1.7 million new cases for that day were recorded worldwide. Of the 1.7 million, 1.9 thousand came from the Philippines, our home country, while 90.4 thousand came from South Korea, his home country.
Per statistics retrieved by Google, the new case count in our home country were dropping to the point that we had become a ‘low risk’ country. We must be so lucky on that day.
In contrast, his country had seen a sharp rise in the number of new cases on that day. He was one of the 90.4 thousand new cases in South Korea. And he was one of the 1.7 million new cases worldwide.
He was one of the 1.5 million active cases in South Korea on that day. And he was one of the 413.5 million worldwide.
All I wanted was for him to come back with a recovery memo.
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