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talkpoliticswww.snopes.com/news/2020/04/21/vietnam-has-reported-no-coronavirus-deaths-how/
For the TL;DR chaps, basically by being incredibly fascist about things combined with testing and compulsory quarantine and some total lockdowns of villages and towns they've kept the numbers ridiculously low.
So it appears that states which opt for a totalitarian response combined with mandatory testing (the Vietnamese testing kits cost $25 each) can limit the infection rate and death toll.
And it seems that this virus has an odd pattern in any given nation. It targets liberal capitalist democracies with entrenched freedoms more than totalitarian nations, as well as targeting BAME folk within these liberal capitalist democracies more than other folk too.
The freer a nation is, the worse its death toll will be. Mind you, Australia and New Zealand have pretty good figures too, and they are liberal capitalist democracies - just they got their responses sorted in time. Unlike the UK and US, and poor old Italy; which never stood a chance being the canary in the mine, so to speak.
It is becoming apparent that there is a correlation between lower mortality rates, and swift and severely sensible responses; and a smidgeon of totalitarianism and the odd draconian measure also seems to help.
For the TL;DR chaps, basically by being incredibly fascist about things combined with testing and compulsory quarantine and some total lockdowns of villages and towns they've kept the numbers ridiculously low.
So it appears that states which opt for a totalitarian response combined with mandatory testing (the Vietnamese testing kits cost $25 each) can limit the infection rate and death toll.
And it seems that this virus has an odd pattern in any given nation. It targets liberal capitalist democracies with entrenched freedoms more than totalitarian nations, as well as targeting BAME folk within these liberal capitalist democracies more than other folk too.
The freer a nation is, the worse its death toll will be. Mind you, Australia and New Zealand have pretty good figures too, and they are liberal capitalist democracies - just they got their responses sorted in time. Unlike the UK and US, and poor old Italy; which never stood a chance being the canary in the mine, so to speak.
It is becoming apparent that there is a correlation between lower mortality rates, and swift and severely sensible responses; and a smidgeon of totalitarianism and the odd draconian measure also seems to help.
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Date: 22/4/20 18:18 (UTC)I also posed it as something we should question. Left to itself, I expect the CDC will, in a few years, issue a report with some new procedures that will supposedly fix the problem of not following the procedures that led to the testing fiasco. Perhaps PHE is the type of organization that learns from their mistakes on their own, unlike the CDC who spent two weeks blaming the state health departments for problems with their test.
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Date: 22/4/20 18:56 (UTC)Pretty sure the CDC has been under the cosh since Obama's last term. It was perceived as needless waste after all; and given the Obama had given the CDC some thought and consideration meant it was always in the Don's sights. I mean I assume it was Trump's vanity that caused him to try to defund it and use disrupting tactics to interfere with its stated objectives, rather than any less obvious reason.
But what do I know, hey?