Biggest Covid outbreak in Vietnam since a while is happening right now and it is because of the Br*tish strain :UK-cool:
i didn’t realize vietnam was that much bigger than UK wild
Gotta remember that Vietnam is very close to the equator in mercator projections. GB is about half the size of Sumatra.
Just found this website , it’s interesting to see countries properly scaled and also fun to play with
Save the NHS!
By reducing its funding!
Fir the love of fuck someone please put the U S into this chart.
okay but I’m actually curious how vietnam managed to do it anyone have any decent reading
Yeah the covid response by country is really do you have a functioning state that will shut down business and enforce quarantine with the state support to feed and pay people, and close borders with countries that aren’t doing that, or are you a neoliberal hell where the state, despite being very strong, will just purposefully not do those things.
So I have some friends in VN and what they report makes the idea of “people wearing masks, staying home, and closing their businesses” sound laughable. Social distancing is impossible in the cities, masks are not universal (though people already wear masks while traveling by moped to keep away dust), and everyone is still working.
I’m guessing tight, early border controls must be the biggest factor, plus a willingness to track every infection and provide free care. Also the tropical climate means that people are outdoors all the time instead of rebreathing each other’s air inside.
I wonder if there’s a natural resistance to coronavirus in East Asia if the virus is endemic to that part of the world. It may have caused local epidemics there for centuries without ever jumping to the rest of the world.
