Posted on 03/28/2020 8:17:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A densely populated neighbor of China, Vietnam has a weak health care system and a low budget for combating the coronavirus. So how has it managed to keep its COVID-19 infection rate so low?
At the end of January, Vietnam's government said it was "declaring war" on the coronavirus, although the outbreak at that time was still confined to China. Premier Nguyen Xuan Phuc said "Fighting this epidemic, means fighting the enemy".
Vietnam instituted rigorous quarantine policies, and carried out complete tracing of all people who came in contact with the virus. These measures were implemented much earlier in the course of the epidemic than in China.
Western countries like Germany only documented those infected and their direct contacts. Vietnam also kept track of second, third and fourth levels of contact to infected persons. All of these people were then placed under successively stringent levels of movement and contact restrictions.
Instead of depending on medicine and technology to prevent a coronavirus outbreak, Vietnam's already robust state security apparatus has applied a widespread system of public surveillance, helped along by a well-supplied, and generally respected, military.
Security officials or Communist Party spies can be found on every street and crossing in every neighborhood and in every village. The military is also deploying soldiers and materiel in the fight against coronavirus.
This close surveillance largely keeps anyone from slipping through the net or evading regulations.
There are few people who are bothered by the fact that this success gives a political advantage to Vietnam's one-party Communist government, which is accused of violating civil rights. People are also accepting stricter control of the media.
The projected economic costs, which will hit Vietnam hard despite the low case numbers, have also been widely accepted by the population.
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That ship sailed for us.
There are a few things a police state can do — do really well — that are just not fashionable in the West.
If it’s a Communist country, I wonder if their numbers are trustworthy to begin with?
At this time of this post, the United States on this website:
Click here for Chinese Flu Statistics
is showing 104,865 cases with 1709 deaths. The media and certain politicians are deliberately causing panic for political gain. They have ruined many people and businesses financially and now we have debt we can never repay. When we default on that debt, the economic devastation will far outstrip the suffering and problems that occurred the last time beginning in 1929. We are going to see major economic damage from this and the indexes falling to lows that people can not imagine. The mult-trillion aid package will NOT correct the damage that has already been done.
Everyone who has lied about this in order to create distress must be arrested, tried and punished severely. They have literally ruined peoples' lives.
You nailed it. Comparing Corona stats between free and nonfree countries always makes the former look worse.
We will print more money . We will never default . Eventually it will take a wheel barrow full of $20 bills to get a cheeseburger .
Personally I think these authoritarian nations like China and Vietnam have just stopped reporting, China’s number hasn’t budged in nearly two weeks, you can’t tell me they haven’t had one single new case
But only five brand new digital Ameros - with full transaction details recorded and stored by the Federal Government.
How does one pronounce a last name of “Phuc?”
Like last time, they are prepared to lose millions of lives to win.
How does one pronounce a last name of “Phuc?”
Very carefully and sparingly if you live in Nam.
Just call him, Premier, Sir!
Why would anyone believe one word that comes out of countries like Vietnam and North Korea?
“There are a few things a police state can do — do really well — that are just not fashionable in the West.”
Definitely. When it comes to efficient control of the people the commies have it down. When it comes to developing innovative solutions such as vaccines capitalism prevails. We won’t be as successful herding the cats so hopefully the medications and vaccines we develop will work.
“How does one pronounce a last name of “Phuc?””
Stupid. Google it.
“Vietnam’s already robust state security apparatus...”
“ROBUST state security apparatus” - nice euphemism for police state.
“People are also accepting stricter control of the media.”
Like they have a choice? And so what are we to believe of what they report?
There’s a joke about the North Korean infection rate.
7:00 AM 1
7:15 AM 0
8:20 AM 1
8:25 AM 0
9:30 AM 1
9:45 AM 0
North Korea proudly announces its Chinese coronavirus containment program a success and that it has no cases.
“Vietnam has a weak health care system and a low budget”
Wait, this can’t be true.
I was told in 1970 that the Vietnamese Communists were agrarian reformers just nobly trying to bring peace and prosperity to colonized Vietnam.
How could this be? They won! They got the country, and it was supposed to be the Worker’s Paradise!
Tell me it isn’t so.
The first we would know about North Korean CV rates would be the mass graves seen from orbit...
“They’re like the Viet Cong — Coronavirus Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that’s all she wrote.”
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