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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS Covid-19 deaths have exceeded US Vietnam Casualties
58,568 vs. 58,220
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Of course, estimates may vary slightly depending on source used.
Good job, Trump. It only took you a few months.
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US Covid-19 deaths have exceeded US Vietnam Casualties (Original Post)
LuckyCharms
Apr 2020
OP
Getting hard to be winning all the time
These deaths belong to you Dumpster
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)2. Meanwhile: Without a single COVID-19 death, Vietnam starts easing its coronavirus lockdown
https://news.yahoo.com/without-single-covid-19-death-140334039.html
Without a single COVID-19 death, Vietnam starts easing its coronavirus lockdown
Shashank Bengali LA Times April 23, 2020
Offering a rare and surprising bright spot in the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam began easing its nationwide lockdown Thursday following an aggressive containment campaign that has meant few infections and no deaths in an Asian nation initially believed to be at great risk from the coronavirus.
The communist-ruled country has sealed its borders, quarantined masses of people, used soldiers and police to track down potential infections and fined social media users for spreading misinformation. After deploying the full arsenal of a single-party state, the sprawling nation of 95 million people has now gone a full week without recording a new infection.
But despite their effectiveness, Vietnam's measures are not easily replicable. Its intolerance of dissent and ability to mobilize an entire security and political apparatus steps more common in China meant its campaign met little of the pushback seen in Western liberal democracies.
And experts caution that the fight isn't over. Starting Thursday, Vietnam allowed residents across the country to resume small gatherings and restarted buses, taxis and regular domestic flights for the first time in three weeks. But with much of Southeast Asia still under lockdown, people must continue wearing masks in public, gatherings of more than 20 remain off-limits, schools will stay closed for several more weeks and international flights are still grounded, officials said.
Since the government imposed a partial nationwide lockdown April 1, Vietnam saw only a modest increase in coronavirus cases to 268, with all but 44 recovered and no fatalities.
Without a single COVID-19 death, Vietnam starts easing its coronavirus lockdown
Shashank Bengali LA Times April 23, 2020
Offering a rare and surprising bright spot in the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam began easing its nationwide lockdown Thursday following an aggressive containment campaign that has meant few infections and no deaths in an Asian nation initially believed to be at great risk from the coronavirus.
The communist-ruled country has sealed its borders, quarantined masses of people, used soldiers and police to track down potential infections and fined social media users for spreading misinformation. After deploying the full arsenal of a single-party state, the sprawling nation of 95 million people has now gone a full week without recording a new infection.
But despite their effectiveness, Vietnam's measures are not easily replicable. Its intolerance of dissent and ability to mobilize an entire security and political apparatus steps more common in China meant its campaign met little of the pushback seen in Western liberal democracies.
And experts caution that the fight isn't over. Starting Thursday, Vietnam allowed residents across the country to resume small gatherings and restarted buses, taxis and regular domestic flights for the first time in three weeks. But with much of Southeast Asia still under lockdown, people must continue wearing masks in public, gatherings of more than 20 remain off-limits, schools will stay closed for several more weeks and international flights are still grounded, officials said.
Since the government imposed a partial nationwide lockdown April 1, Vietnam saw only a modest increase in coronavirus cases to 268, with all but 44 recovered and no fatalities.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Irony really sucks.
The same age group who lost 58k people in defense of a Rubber Plantation Owner from his Workers,are,know are paying the piece once again to the tune of another 58k people who died because of a Draft Dodger who has no clue but a Ego that is un-measurable.
lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)4. 8 weeks instead of 12 years...
I am tired of all this "winning"... so very very tired.