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There are many different types of viruses. From the plague that swept through medieval Europe to MERS that shook Middle Eastern society in 2015 to the new coronavirus. In addition, numerous infectious diseases such as cholera, smallpox, tuberculosis, and AIDS appear in human history. These viruses would have had significant social and political ramifications at certain times or continuously.

The relationship between viruses and countries differs in many ways from other diseases. In many cases, the role or responsibility of the state in individual diseases is not well important, and blaming the state is often not appropriate. However, when a virus-like Corona turns, the nation is called, whether it is good or bad. Talk about the state’s role and pursue its responsibilities. The virus is not one of many diseases, but a national disaster itself.

The two forms of biopolitics virus during individual body discipline and population control are important risk factors in the latter area. In order to ensure the safety of the entire population, politics must protect the population from hunger and virus. Failure to respond effectively to infectious diseases makes biopolitics difficult to function.

Virus are accompanied by psychological disasters. The virus spread from person to person. When a virus occurs, people evade the epidemic for self-defense. When the virus spreads, people feel anxious and avoid places where people gather in the mind. Movie theaters and amuse parks are slack, and more schools are closed. The relationship between people and people is broken up, and people are isolated.

An area or place where an epidemic occurs is an unfavorable place and is subject to evasion. In a hospital where an virus patient has gone, the patients escape like a tide. At the time of the Corona pandemic, Korea itself was the subject of evasion, and tourists’ visit to Korea was largely canceled and the travel industry was damaged by a direct hit. Now, on the contrary, China and Italy are the object of evasion.

Politics of containment and exclusion works. The psychology of evading and accusing patients of plagues for harming others justifies the policy of quarantining and excluding them. In the past, when the plague circulated, patients were kept in distant cottages or shelter. Whether it was dead or living there, fate was a matter. Neither the doctor nor the government had anything to do with the disease. The most basic response to the plague was quarantine policy.

Even in the modern virus, the way we respond is unchanged. Patients are unconditionally admitted to the quarantine room and completely blocked outsiders, no family visits, and those who are likely to develop the disease by contact with the patient are registered as self-containment subjects.

Biopolitics, which has been discussed for a long time, refers to the state of modern nations who want to recognize and actively manage population groups as a whole and individual human bodies as a mean to maintain power. The virus poses a serious challenge to this vital power’s population management function. The virus expands when everyday management functions fail, while the virus increases the likelihood that the management will be further damaged.

From the standpoint of biopolitics, the virus must be a hostile being that must be managed and controlled. Modern countries have introduced various methods and prepared various devices to manage the virus. The development of medicine greatly contributed to the operation of this vital power and at some point came to believe that the virus was conquered. However, the emergence and virus was enough to shake this belief.

In the case of an virus emergency, the epidemic operates. When the epidemic is activated, the patient is recognized as a perpetrator or criminal, and containment and devices are activated. The patient’s every move is subject to surveillance, and everything related to the patient-the items handled, the space passed through becomes unsuccessful. The increasing number of patients is called by serial number, and the patient’s uniform is recognized as a prison uniform.