Guest Post by Alex Berenson
Until this summer, Vietnam was a Covid success story.
Many Americans still think of Vietnam as a poor country of rice farmers. In fact, Vietnam’s economy has surged since 2000 as it picks up manufacturing priced out of China, its historic foe to the north. Fewer than 10 percent of Vietnam’s 100 million people now fall below the global poverty line.
Like China, Vietnam has a nominally Communist government better described as pro-growth and authoritarian. And like China, Vietnam moved aggressively to contain the coronavirus last year with apparent success.
In 2020, Vietnam reported fewer than 1,500 Covid cases and 35 deaths. In a March 2021 article, a group of academics – inevitably supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – bragged that Vietnam’s early lockdowns and aggressive contact tracing program deserved the credit.
Just how aggressive? Vietnam detained 4.3 million people in centralized quarantine centers in 2020, and quarantined another 6 million at home.
It also closed its borders to nearly all international travel and created an phone app that includes “allows users to declare their own health status, report suspected cases, and watch real-time movement of people placed under quarantine.”
In other words, an automated snitching program that would have made Orwell proud.
You also may not be surprised to hear that Vietnam cracked down on “misinformation” about Covid, too. “The government was on the lookout for misinformation from the very beginning… [and has] a specific decree outlining fines for people who use social media to ‘share false, untruthful, distorted, or slanderous information.’”
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-exemplar-vietnam
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But Vietnam’s success at containing Covid abruptly ended this spring.
Its coronavirus epidemic began in May and exploded in late June. Since then, cases have risen 25-fold. On Friday, Vietnam reported more than 17,000 cases, its most ever – more than 10 times as many as it had in all of 2020.
Deaths are soaring too. Over the last week, Vietnam has averaged more deaths per-capita than the United States.
With this number of cases, individual contact tracing is effectively impossible, even for a centralized and authoritarian state. So Vietnam has implemented far more aggressive lockdowns than it did last year, including bringing in soldiers to enforce quarantines in the southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon).
As Reuters reported on August 26: “Vietnam has deployed soldiers to the streets of Ho Chi Minh City to help enforce the country’s strictest movement curbs yet which prevent people from leaving home, even for food.”
Apparently this plan… has a few flaws.
As a reader wrote in this morning:
“On August 23 they have implemented this so-called Directive 16 for two weeks which is like martial law at this point…
“Areas in the red zones are not allowed to shop at supermarkets for two weeks. Supposedly their plan was to have the military do the shopping for you and they can deliver it at your doorstep…
“As you can surmise, it’s a nightmare. [There is now] a mobile app for food and essential stuff but the supermarkets are inundated with orders it can’t cater to everyone. So much for the military doing the shopping…”
Where all this goes remains to be seen. Presumably the Vietnamese government will not starve its citizens to death to reduce case counts for a virus that roughly 997 out of every 1,000 people survive. (Though, at this point, who can be sure?) But the Vietnamese economy and global clothing and shoe supply chains are already starting to feel the pinch.
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But maybe the biggest question of all remains unanswered: why now?
Inevitably, the media and government are blaming the Delta variant. But the variant was widespread worldwide well before the explosion in cases Vietnam saw two months ago.
But Vietnam did see one big change this summer: the beginning of a mass vaccination program. Vietnam didn’t depend on Chinese vaccines, either (not surprising, given the long history of conflict between the two countries). It has mostly used the AstraZeneca DNA/AAV vaccine, along with the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines – the same trio that have dominated Europe.
As of early June, almost no one in Vietnam was vaccinated. Today, almost 20 percent of the country has received at least one dose.
The pattern is exactly the same as we saw in Israel and Britain in January, and many other countries over the spring. The first dose of mass vaccination campaigns is associated with a huge spike in cases.
Too many countries have seen this trend for it to be called coincidental. The question is what’s causing it. Possibilities include post-vaccine behavioral changes (hot vaxxed summer!), vulnerable people clustering together at vaccination sites, or (most likely) some short-term vaccine-driven suppression of the immune system.
Given that we know now peak mRNA vaccine protection lasts a matter of months at most, the post-first-dose spike is even more important in judging the costs and benefits of vaccines. But vaccine advocates will not even acknowledge the existence of the post-first-dose spike, much less admit that it leaves the case for mass vaccinations even murkier than before.
No matter.
Whether they choose to admit the truth or not, Vietnam’s experience proves again that virus gonna virus. Extreme measures may temporarily delay the spread of Sars-Cov-2 (at enormous cost to civil liberties). But without a permanent and effective vaccine, every country – and every person – will eventually be exposed. And right now, we are nowhere near a permanent and effective vaccine.
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Just another data point to support the idea this has nothing to do with health and everything to do de-population and tyranny.
So, am hoping Kamala caught it and brought it home to Joe and his controllers.
And remember that the “root cause” of all evil is found in the love and lust for filthy lucre.
I believe Biden et al have negotiated themselves a seat at the postUSA “talks” with Putin, China including newly annexed Taiwan, NATO without US involement, and some postEU presence to lend the New New world order a blank check written in our children’s blood.
Knowing the paradigm shift to debt-ridden nation with the loss of Petro-dollar control, Biden intentionally crippled the energy production, aiding and abetting our enemies.
Joe Biden defines treason and corruption in politics. He is the best argument for term limits since Strom Thurmond napped away the last decade of his life in Congress.
G.R.E.E.D is the most destructive of all.
Everyone will be exposed, and those without the death jab will recover, and their immune systems will generate long-term immunity that will be dozens of times superior to whatever they might get from the death jabs. We do NOT need a reliable vaccine. We need honesty in therapeutics and the immediate imprisonment of everyone that has lied to us and covered up the truth. Yes, that means tens of millions in prison.
It means tens of millions of lamp posts.
Yes
If it’s got a neck, it will hang.
“But without a permanent and effective vaccine, every country – and every person – will eventually be exposed.”
I remember reading that in the last 20 years, there have been a couple of successful vaccines for specific corona virus diseases in two domestic animal populations. All other attempts have failed, and failed spectacularly. Usually, the test group died.
We don’t need no stinkin’ vaxx. Even if you aren’t healthy there are a number of effective approaches. I have 3 at hand that won’t require a visit to ‘the Doctor’ to effect. Take control of your situation before you absolutely have to. Don’t rely on any outside assistance to ensure your health.
As mentioned in the article linked below, White House coronavirus task force senior advisor (((Andy Slavitt))) sent a snarky tweet about a vaccine passport app being rolled out in early September. More gossip that it’s about to be released in the coming week or so …
“Presumably the Vietnamese government will not starve its citizens to death to reduce case counts for a virus that roughly 997 out of every 1,000 people survive.”
The author of this post is very naive (about more than just the above quote). He still hasn’t figured out that the whole purpose for the scamdemic is to help usher in the NWO One World Government, which includes reducing the world population to 500 million. The Vietnamese government, and every other government on the planet that is in on the scam (which is almost all of them), most assuredly would starve its citizens to death. In fact if they don’t get enough deaths due to the kill shots they probably will use starvation to get the population down to the level they want.
“The first dose of mass vaccination campaigns is associated with a huge spike in cases.”
It isn’t a spike in cases of “COVID-19”. It is a spike in injuries and deaths due to the kill shots.
And China will willingly become part of the NWO as well?
Just trying to connect the dots here.
(I mean, [supposedly] China didn’t allow large number of people out of their houses, much less going shopping, but nobody seemed to have starved there.)
I think China and Russia are treating this just like they do the financial system. They play along to their own benefit without getting sucked into becoming participants.
For all I know, China and Russia are distributing saline shots and then dealing with cold outbreaks cautiously, because these vaccines may create a bioweapon that we do have to worry about.
Media coverage anywhere can’t be trusted for anything but propaganda.
China is controlled by the NWO, as are almost all countries. China’s role in the scamdemic was to ramp up the fear porn in the beginning to cause the West to initiate the lockdowns in early 2020, and to take the blame for the origin of “COVID-19”. China will eventually take measures to reduce their population, but for some reason the NWO wants to reduce the population in the West first.
Hilarious. Are all your accusations backed by conjecture only?
Almost as good as “Russia will take over the world soon, and they will also collapse from internal weakness any day now” which the neocons have been selling us for decades.
Also give us the list of countries not controlled by the NWO, according to you!
But…but where will I get my Converse Chuck high tops from then?
Maybe they will move the factory back to Medford, Mass. Not.
Children Of Men
Is the meaning that these people became like children and so were easily destroyed?
The movie.
No more children.
…and after the CJD hits “I am Legend” at the same time.
Sounds like the Phoenix Program, is the CIA in charge of this ‘variant’ of the original?
Vietnam didn’t get hit in first wave because it has always had a arms-length relationship with China.
But it doesn’t with India.
That’s why Italy was hit first – there is a very close relationship in the clothing world between the Northern Italy portions initially affected and Wuhan.
Vietnam will probably do fine with Covid – especially the delta variant. Not too many fatties, I’m guessing.
It’s the lock-down and “vaccines” are doing the killing there, not Covid.
TPTB in this country and worldwide would be happy to oversee a Holodmor-Lite; starving out recalcitrant
terrorists“citizens”.