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No horse in this race - but

If you have any indication that the numbers are fabricated you're better off posting them (or any references at all). Otherwise you just sound like you're appealing to prejudices, like as if "south-east asian" countries couldn't possibly have had an effective epidemiologic response.

(It might not have - you might be right - still, the form of your argument is completely wrong for fruitful discussion)

For an example of a reference that is a counter-argument to your point, see - https://ourworldindata.org/covid-exemplar-vietnam