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Yes. However, there's also no travel restriction between Cambodia and Vietnam, significant cross-border traffic, and Cambodia is not "taking it nearly as seriously" as Vietnam is.

If Vietnam had the transmission going on that Italy does, the case-tracking and quarantining would be a lot harder, and I just don't buy that the other things (masks, forehead temperature checks[0], hand sanitizer that hardly anyone knows how to use properly) have much of an impact.

There has to be some much larger factor than those at play (and this study suggests what that factor could be).

[0] I encourage people to ask or look what the reading is when getting these checks. About a third of the time when I get a forehead temperature check, the reading is totally nonsensical, like 31C, but the person just waves me through since it's under the threshold. I'm skeptical of the efficacy of a test that is this inaccurate.




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