Chapter 61
200,000 expected deaths
The aftermath of the spread of Corona in New York, the center of the US economy, hit the whole world.
〈Trump considers blockade of two states including New York〉
〈New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut under review for mandatory quarantine〉
〈Watched by Korean and American baseball fans who wear masks and play baseball〉
〈Corona 19 death toll exceeds 30,000 worldwide〉
〈Coronavirus in the U.S. surpasses 100,000, financial market’time of fate’〉
The US administration was surprisingly helpless than expected.
The police force could not be forcibly mobilized for quarantine measures, and medical facilities quickly reached saturation.
Even the crematorium was filled to the point where news broke that the bodies were stored in refrigerated vehicles.
It felt like Corona was completely sweeping the world.
〈The US government expects more than 200,000 deaths even if it responds perfectly from now on〉
Since the local infection spread, it seems that you can’t use your hands at all.
Although it may be because socially and culturally active corona inspections and inability to take containment measures.
‘200,000 people… … . It feels like a lot of small and medium-sized cities in Korea are disappearing.’
How sensitive is the United States to human casualties?
Historically, it is a country that has caused wars with the deaths of dozens or hundreds of people.
Even the number of deaths during the Vietnam War was said to have been about 50,000, and I could feel the power of the spreading epidemic.
Now, TV and newspapers were all about corona.
“Myungwoo.”
“yes.”
“How much disruption will programmers have to their work if they work from home?”
“Aren’t you going to work?”
“Because corona can spread in the company.”
“but. You have to buy it when you buy it.”
The management method of Earth Resources was also decided to change to a system to prepare for the corona.
Anxiety spread among the staff, and children often did not go to school.
I was forced to go to work so I could work from home.
“Since I can work online, my work won’t be delayed too much. But what about your salary?”
“The company isn’t even in the red, so we have to pay for it. Everyone has suffered so far, so let’s send some consolation money.”
“Five! Then everyone will like it.”
I didn’t have a complete manager’s mind yet, so I thought about it from the employee’s point of view.
How happy they would be if a company that had just started their business offered them a consolation money.
Encourage all employees to work from home whenever possible.
Although the work schedule, including the hiring of new employees, was inevitably delayed, I decided to accept it.
―Josua: Oppa, is that place okay?
After a long time, Jo Soo-ah contacted me first.
-Kim Shin: Yes. San Francisco is still fine.
―Jo Soo-ah: If it’s dangerous, don’t go to work and stay at home.
―Kim Shin: The fatality rate was not high in Korea either. Don’t worry too much about working from home.
―Jo Soo-ah: But you have to be careful.
-Kim Shin: Yes.
* * *
California has a natural environment.
Fresh air, great weather and beaches.
I haven’t been able to enjoy it properly because I’ve been working hard so far.
work life balance.
It means finding a balance between work and life.
It was hard to take care of when I was an office worker, but it was even more so after starting the company.
To be honest, I didn’t do a lot of work myself, but I couldn’t go to the baseball field and watch the game comfortably while the staff were working on the project.
On the weekends, I was only going for a walk on the beach, but now I have plenty of time.
“Jong-yeop. Let’s find a new house.”
“Yes. older brother.”
I decided to get a house in Palo Alto, where my company is located.
It felt cramped with three men living in a three-bedroom apartment.
I lived in the semi-basement for 30 years, thanks to being accustomed to a pleasant environment.
The musty smell of mold, cockroaches of various nationalities, and even the fog filling the room.
‘I wanted to go to a gosiwon that gave me free meals. Gosiwon was much more comfortable.’
A wealthy village with old street trees.
I went to see a few houses with a real estate agent.
A newly built eight-bedroom mansion not too far from work caught my eye.
As for the landscaping, there were swimming pools, ponds, and artificial waterfalls, so from the gardens, it had the imposing feeling of a luxury house.
The price is 10 million dollars.
It was a great amount of money for me, who had a beggar spirit to the bone.
In the meantime, while traveling and doing business, the distribution has grown generously.
“Let’s do this house.”
“Would you like to?”
“yes. I like it.”
The original furniture was of high quality, so I decided to acquire most of them.
It’s because it’s annoying to go around buying things to suit the house.
I signed a contract for a house with cash and asked Myung-Woo Oh to come and show it to me.
“What do you think?”
“It’s nice to be close to the company.”
“It doesn’t.”
The luxury of the house did not feel as great as before.
After my fortune passed $10 billion, my feelings about cars and houses have cooled a lot.
Even seeing the supercars roaming the streets of California, he reacted indifferently.
‘It must mean that I feel that I am rich.’
I don’t know why some super rich people use ordinary houses or cars.
I have been in contact with Professor Paul a lot lately because of the corona.
―Paul: I think I have to go to America in a few days. because of the clinical
―Kim Shin: You have worked hard. Are consultations on pre-clinical trials ongoing?
―Paul: In the US, pre-clinical trials were no longer conducted.
―Kim Shin: Yes?
―Paul: They say they will go straight into the first clinical trial. It’s for applicants.
Pass pre-clinical.
It is said that the period of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd clinical trials, which took 30 months, will be drastically reduced to 2 or 3 months.
It was surprising considering the complicated procedures required for new drug or vaccine development.
―Kim Shin: Considering the safety of the vaccine, the test period seems short.
―Paul: It seems that there was active lobbying by other pharmaceutical companies. And the situation has become urgent in the political world and quarantine authorities, so they are trying to release a vaccine within this year.
-Kim Shin: That’s right.
As long as the instep is out of the fire, things that are impossible with common sense happen in a crisis situation.
As Corona landed in the United States and Europe, it raised its size as a global disaster.
‘Even if you cope perfectly, 200,000 people in the United States alone… … .’
Even now, the forecast was incomparably increased compared to a week ago.
The media predicted that the actual death toll would exceed 400,000 to 500,000 in the United States alone.
‘Really millions of people could die all over the world.’
Even when corona just came out, I didn’t expect that the damage would be this much.
The disease, which had just begun in China and would have killed hundreds, has spread around the world.
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Vaccine research for Corona started competitively among pharmaceutical companies, and each country was pouring out support policies.
‘Can Biolife’s vaccine work?’
I did the best I could as an individual.
A person’s life is precious.
I thought that if I invested in the opportunity to save hundreds of thousands or millions of people, I had done something worthwhile.
―Kim Shin: If there is anything you need help with in the US, please let me know.
―Paul: Yes. thank you
* * *
Dream Art Rainbow.
Seong Ho-jin and Ahn Won-jae, who came to the U.S. and are filming Kim Shin’s YouTube channel, had a conversation at the dorm.
“I think it would be good to release Earth Resources and the company side separately as a series.”
“I agree too. It feels like a company documentary, but there are a lot of people who find it more fun than I thought.”
“Because the employees are young, and the company is experiencing record-breaking growth.”
I planned a YouTube video called Super Rich Kim Shin’s Daily Life in America.
As soon as you start a company, you turn it into a unicorn company.
Most of the employees, even excluding the programmers, are in their 20s or college graduates.
It is said that the reason why programmers gathered was because of Oh Myeong-woo’s Internet writings.
It’s not an incident that happened a long time ago, but it’s happening now, so viewers’ comments exploded.
―That’s how you make money!
―I envy your talent for making money the most.
―I started a business because I was frustrated with the companies that invested in Silicon Valley.
―It’s a really, really great video. Studying the whole story repeatedly every day.
―You have to work hard to get what you want in life. Never stop learning and challenging yourself.
―Even though he has a lot of money, he seems serious about his business.
The video gets tens of thousands of comments every day.
Korean, English, and many other languages, such as Japanese and Chinese.
You will have to spend at least 2 hours a day to check all the comments.
Of course, it wasn’t without bad comments.
-You are very rich. But I don’t date, I don’t have many sports or hobbies. The small life of playing games at home. LOL
―It doesn’t seem like there’s anything special because he’s from a dirt spoon.
―Company, home, company, home. Video content coming soon. After that, what are you going to do to get the number of views?
-Wow. They’ve lost their minds.
―Are you playing drip from a clay spoon to Kim Shin? There is no one in Korea who can build Kim Shin with money.
―So, when do you donate? I’ve never seen an article about Kim Shin donating.
YouTube has been of great business help to Earth resources, including Source Coin.
Effect beyond imagination.
When a video is uploaded to YouTube, hundreds of articles are pouring out in Korea.
Earth resource working conditions, building area, cloud usage fee, etc.
There were even separate articles about key employees.
Kim Shin and Earth Resources were very popular in Korea.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is a national enterprise.
Thanks to that, Dream Art Rainbow also provided a generous budget for the filming team.
“But I mean.”
PD Seong Ho-jin opened his mouth in a heavy voice.
“I don’t know how to broadcast the development of a corona vaccine.”
It’s okay to say that Kim Shin’s every move is, but he’s filming a lot of things in the company.
Another team in Korea covered Bio Life, and I learned that they had been investing steadily.
“It’s a research-oriented pharmaceutical company.”
“There are no results… … .”
“It’s a company I’ve been investing in for over two years. It seems that this investment has failed.”
When I first started covering it, I thought of him as a super-rich person with a lot of interest in various fields and medicine.
However, when BioLife said that they had developed a vaccine for COVID-19 this time, the filming team fell into confusion.
This fact was still closely guarded.
“If the fact of developing a corona vaccine is released on YouTube, there will be a huge uproar.”
“The whole of Korea will be excited.”
“Will there be an uproar in America too?”
It was an issue that could turn everything from the political world to the media.
Even influential politicians who were candidates for the presidency were originally doctors.
He became famous for creating and distributing computer vaccines and gained high approval ratings.
What if Kim Shin makes a decisive contribution to overcoming the corona crisis?
could become a national hero.
“But it can be a trap.”
“you’re right. I found out that the probability of vaccine failure is very high.”
If there were serious side effects in clinical trials, there was a possibility that Kim Shin would be criticized.
It doesn’t matter what kind of effort you put in, there are many people who only see the result of failure.
“If I talk to the CEO and the first clinical trial is successful, then I will upload a video.”
“That would be right. Even if the development of a vaccine fails, the response will not be bad if it is posted after two or three years.”