Why Has Vietnam had zero Corona virus deaths?

[triron]

[triron]

1. I bet most people in the good ol' USA don't want to hear this.

[onetexan]

2. Vietnam's human rights abuses continue, but its handling of Covid is admirable.

[Blue_true]

3. It would have been great to hear a story that was not so clearly slanted.

Maybe we need to see how Japan, New Zealand and South Korea did it, especially Japan and South Korea, both countries that have densely populated urban centers.

[onetexan]

4. How was it slanted? Have you ever been to VN and seen how densely populated its major cities are?

This is a developing nation with population of 80 million BTW. It's about their country's government doing the right thing and being so well prepared to handle breakouts. That was mentioned on the video.

[Blue_true]

5. The socialist republic carp. Japan and South Korea and New Zealand are capitalist,

but when people talk about how well they handled this so far, the narrative isn’t filled with “capitalist” this and “capitalist” that.

[triron]

10. This is not relevant in so many ways.

[Blue_true]

12. Ok, then why not use Japan and South Korea as the models, they are democracies

where people have freedom of choice.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. America's human rights abuses continue to escalate, but it's handling of Covid is atrocious

[onetexan]

9. So true, and so sad!!

[Baclava]

7. My guess they didnt have many Chinese tourists with the virulent virus load to begin the spread

Same for India and Africa, not major destinations during Chinese New Year, the first wave

[Dan]

8. Wow

I removed the sarcasm tag, cause I don’t know quite how to respond to this.

[Baclava]

11. What, u think the first outbreaks just magically appeared all over the world at once?

[Dan]

13. I guess I was thinking

That regardless of where the virus originated - due to the ability to travel from location to another in a short amount of time, that once the virus was out of the box - it was somewhat academic as to where it originated. People travel from all over the world - the spread or spreads could have come from anywhere to certain geographical locations.

[Baclava]

14. just a theory, that the first wave in Jan most virulent strain, and long before preventive measures

They called the Lunar New Year the largest mass migration of humans on the planet, just so happened the outbreak started in the center of that province where the very first virus reports of deaths occurred, with who knows how many mutations have occured since then

[nsd]

15. The number of sources and the infectiousness of the strain matter to how fast ...

... the spread is in a population. That's part of the rationale for social distancing and wearing masks even though coronavirus is present to some extent in a particular locale.

I don't know if this explanation is right or wrong, but it's scientifically plausible. It's not a rightwing talking point and it doesn't merit a sarcasm tag ... or a subject line of "wow."

[subterranean]

16. Vietnam is actually quite a popular destination for Chinese tourists.

In fact, the number of Chinese visitors to Vietnam hit a record high in January, before Vietnam started banning travelers from virus-stricken areas.

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/travel/places/chinese-visitors-to-vietnam-hit-record-high-in-jan-4048360.html

Whatever the reason for Vietnam's zero official death toll, it's not because it lacked visitors from China.

[Baclava]

17. OK that makes sense, i have 1000 more theories which could be wrong too, lol, but aliens are in them

[waddirum]

18. Vietnam has a land border with China

There’s lots of trade and travel between the two countries.