Vietnam starting to clamp down a bit

I have been bragging in the past about how in Vietnam life has been carrying on more or less as normal despite the Corvid-19 pandemic and of all the countries infected (it's almost all countries now) they have been seen as doing the best job of containment, especially in South East Asia.

With a really low infection rate and zero deaths reported, it is kind of hard to look at what is going on over here and disagree with their tactics.

If this data can be trusted, then I would say that Vietnam is doing a phenomenal job of containment. I don't know enough about this country to know if they are in the business of lying to their own people but I also don't know of anyone who knows anyone, or has even heard of anyone that knows any differently than what we are being told. If they are lying to us, they are doing a very good job of that!

I have seen freedoms taken away piece by piece and although I have my own opinions about whether or not this virus is really to be as feared as the media is claiming that it is, I am not going to defy the rulings of the country that I am a guest in. Many of the social distancing mandates were merely recommendations and as of yesterday they have now become "orders."

It was determined on April 1st that the entire country would go into lockdown and that most shops and public areas are to remain closed until the 15th. Since I work online and don't mind watching netflix all day I suppose you could say that I'm ok with this and feel as though the government has been handling this all quite well. It seems as though this is the prevailing opinion of the nation.

This chart is actually pretty crazy to me since in the past 2 months I have lived in the countries on both ends of this spectrum (Vietnam and Thailand) and yes, I do realize that this is just a poll so it isn't any sort of official anything but if I had to say whether or not I thought the government here was doing enough I would say "yes they have" but a lot of this has to do with the fact that they reacted so quickly: They closed the schools immediately after finding out about the virus' existence in next-door China and quickly moved to close down the borders with very few ways in or out. If you follow my stuff you know that I was on a damn near empty plane when I came over here in late February.

This might change to "too much" pretty soon though. I don't know if it is going to stick but all restaurants have been forced to stop operating including doing take away and delivery yet giant supermarkets remain open. In my mind this makes very little sense because now we are going to have the massive groups of people all in the same place whereas the take away / delivery aspect of it kept people spread out. Perhaps the fear is that if a delivery driver was positive, they would stand the chance of infecting everyone they deliver to... but what about if a clerk at a supermarket has it? Wouldn't that be substantially more exposure?

I suppose they have their reasons and I am not going to rock the boat locally. I'll just bitch about the fact that I have to eat instant noodles for the next 2 weeks while I watch Tiger King

Of course if i run out of treatie-pies there could be an uprising in my living room that I am not prepared for.

_{don't let that cute exterior fool you. She is a killing machine if the treatie-pies run out}