this is from linh dinh, a vietnamese who lived in california from a young age and then began to travel. he's now in namibia but this post is from an american he is in contact with who is now in vietnam;

I am a (former) American who has been working in Saigon for the past six or seven years. Unfortunately I am about to leave the country in a couple of weeks, as I have concluded that I cannot remain here without being vaccinated. (We are totally on the same page on that issue.) We have some other ideas in common, from what I have read in that article--about a certain race of people whom I refer to as the "Self-Chosenites". Ha.

I am the only person in my company here of nearly 200 people who is not vaccinated. And because I am not vaccinated, I am not allowed to go into the office. And because I can't go into the office anymore, there is no reason for me to remain in Vietnam. They're going to find out soon enough that they will all get infected and become very sick--even without me. (Actually, the 57-year-old father of one of my colleagues died a day after getting vaccinated--and they blamed COVID. At least they didn't blame me.)

Some of my dear colleagues try to convince me to get vaccinated. One of them, a very bright young Vietnamese guy who just finished his MBA at Columbia University, told me: "But what about the science, Jim?" He told me that something like 28% of people over 60 (I'm 62) have died from COVID in Vietnam. I told him that that number seemed extremely high to me. I got him to check again, and it turns out that 28% of the people who have died from COVID are between 60 and 70. HUGE difference! And this guy is a Columbia MBA! People have completely lost their ability to reason. When I told him that fewer than one percent of people my age die from COVID, he said, "But why even take a chance?" Well, my answer, which I didn't tell him because he's already been vaccinated, is "Your reasoning would make sense if the vaccines were safe." But they're obviously not. He is a very healthy 30-year old man. He should be thinking, "If Jim is over 60 years old and he refuses to get vaccinated, and he's even willing to abandon all of his possessions to flee Vietnam as quickly as possible rather than get vaccinated, maybe he knows something that I don't know." Instead, he just thinks that I'm an anti-science conspiracy theorist. And my American boss accuses me of not doing my part to build herd immunity. I think it's asking a bit much to expect me to kill myself for the benefit of "society".

I read the article that you just sent me. And thanks for reminding me of that point that we had almost NO COVID deaths here before the vaccines started rolling out. I'm going to mention that to my friends here. I also remember how the Government saved that pilot. At that stage, it seemed that there was no need to worry because there were cures for the virus. I do a LOT of research on the topic, and there are indeed cures. And luckily/thankfully, here in Vietnam, we can buy all of the necessary medicines for the treatment of COVID (ivermectin, hydroxycholoroquine, colchicine, fluvoxamine, fenofibrate, budesonide, etc.) over the counter, for cheap. I would HATE to be in America now, where they actually not only prevent you from buying cheap medicines that work but they actually KILL you in the hospital with medicines that DON'T work--just to make COVID seem more dangerous than it is--in order to convince other people to get "vaccinated".



[LD's note: Jim tried to alert a well-connected Vietnamese to problems with the Covid vaccines, but he was ignored.].......https://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/2021/11/covid-news-from-vietnam-as-sent-by-62.html