Psst, the fact everyone is applauding New Zealand (a country of 5 million), going 100 days w/o new covid cases but ignored Vietnam, (a country of 95 million), doing the same is racism. Even w/ recent tourism-driven cases in Vietnam, they're still a fraction of New Zealand's total

It's so ridiculously transparent, and it's why the West is still completely unequipped to respond to this pandemic, much less the next one. If a country run by the descendants of Europeans doesn't do it, the entire Western world acts like it didn't happen.

Meanwhile, most of Europe just sort of decided to let the elderly die, and has the highest per capita covid death rates in the world as a result, but people in the West keep acting like Europe has their act together because they have fewer total cases than the US.

Taiwan, also an island like NZ, and with more than 23 million people, crossed the 100 days marker in late July too. That didn't get the attention New Zealand is getting either. If you go by how people are talking about it on here, you'd think NZ was the first.