rlly makes u think

hahahahahaha!!!!!!!! 50 years on and Vietnam is still beating America’s ass !!!!!!!!!!

uh huh

You know how china lies?

Vietnam does the same shit.

I live in vietnam and the number is actually that low lmao vietnam has closed down schools and universities and started online learning since feb. they have praticed social distancing and lock down for 20 days now. The government literally spent billions to put tourists in quarantine for free to health check them everyday for fourteen days to make sure community spread doesn’t happen. They’re willing to risk the economy as long as the people are safe. Like you do know vietnamese people have access to the internet right???

Population differences you people, America has significantly more people total

wow you’re such a genius, if only there were statistics for the number of cases per million people so we could scale it to population size, such as here:

can any mathematicians tell us whether 3 or 3,379 is the larger number? can any number wizards help us out on that one

The lengths that people go to to try and force the idea that the us is great are just astounding really

The disillusionment of the American people is on par with the Chinese for COVID relief

I do agree that the U.S. certainly has not handled this well, and vietnam distributing food meals and groceries likely helped greatly with preventing the spread of infection. However, a fact worth considering is population density, which is so much more relevant here than the raw population. The more dense a population an area has, the more difficult it would be for a person to completely self-isolate without accidentally spreading a contagious disease.

The State of New York, for example, has an average population density of about 414 people per square mile. https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/state-densities/. The densest part of New York is Manhattan, which has an average density of about 69,000 per square mile. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcountymanhattanboroughnewyork/POP060210. Manhattan has gotten about 23k confirmed cases of Covid and the state has about 351k cases
Vietnam has an average population density of about 263 people per square kilometer (about 102 people per square mile). https://www.vietnamonline.com/az/vietnam-population-density.html. The densest part of Vietnam is Red River Delta, which has about 939 per km^2 (about 362 per square mile).

Their are more factors to consider as to how the number got that high (culure, people, etc.) but its honestly not that much of a surprise that the U.S. has more cases given the density of certain areas.

(side-note: Kings county in NY has 50k and queens county has 57k, both are less dense than Manhattan. I don't know enough about NY to say why)

hey cool i want you to know you’re a fucking idiot.

the first thing that is stupid is that you’re comparing Vietnam to New York State exclusively, when virtually every state in the united states has a far lower population density than Vietnam, and still, mysteriously, is doing far worse. in fact the USA overall has a population density of a mere 36 per square km, approximately a 9th of the 263 per square km in Vietnam. according to your logic, by all rights Vietnam should be doing far worse than the USA as a whole, and yet.

also you don’t seem to know how a mile compares to a km, since you keep saying that the population density per square mile is smaller than the population density per square mile. a mile is larger than a kilometer so it should be obvious that this is incorrect. you claim that the 263 per square km population density of Vietnam converts to 102 per square mile- this is wrong, it converts to 423 per square mile. which, wow, look at that, is higher than New York State’s 414!

the red river delta is a far broader region than Manhattan, including not only urban regions but also the surrounding suburbs and rural areas. a more apt comparison would be to, say, district 11 in ho chi min city, which has a population density of 45,241 per square km- compare to the 25,846 per square km of Manhattan. in fact, here’s a rundown on the most populous districts in NYC compared to Vietnamese cities, which allows us the most accurate possible comparison:

as you can see, the population density in districts in NYC is largely on par with that of districts in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, with the sole exception of Yorkville, which admittadly does have a higher population density.

i hope it should be obvious that the population density of the Yorkville district alone is not an adaquate explanation of the vast difference between zero deaths, and, currently, 90,263 deaths.

i diagnose you with brain worms.