[Mom MD]

masks are not the only difference between here and Thailand or vietnam and vietnam is currently having an outbreak. Put your mask on and go away please

[Cronos]

Thailand and Vietnam have densely packed cities, yet their death rates are a fraction of the USA's -- at 0.8 and 0.1 deaths per million (compared to the USA's 488/million)

Heck, even Greece, with it's masks policy has only 20 deaths per million, Slovakia with 6 deaths per million.

All of them with masks policies

Putting the mask prevents the transmission

[Cronos]

you then say "Vietnam is having an outbreak" -- this country of 97 million had an outbreak of 31 cases and 1 death.

Those were all people who were stopped at the borders

Vietnamese attribute the country’s success to the “Honda effect:” “We’re a people who go everywhere on Honda motorcycles. We’re accustomed to wearing masks to keep out the dust. I think that is what saved us this time.”

Vietnam made use of the lessons it learned from the SARS outbreak. As soon as an infected person was identified, he or she was placed in a state-owned facility such as a university dormitory or military barracks. All close contacts of the infected person were also placed on “stand-by” in these facilities, even if they were asymptomatic at the time. In early April, when only 240 people had been infected, 45,000 people were under quarantine. Whenever a small cluster of infections emerged, the entire village was sealed off from the outside world.