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by Lazlo Woodbine
Anyone notice that those nations with the most successful response to the corona virus as measured by deaths/ infections per capita (new Zealand, Germany, Iceland, Taiwan, Norway) are all led by women.
Those nations with the poorest response (US, Brazil, UK) are all led by men who perceive themselves as alpha males.
Posted on 22/04/20
7 Comment(s)
Not really the place for a post like this Doug.
on 18/04/20 @ 2:46🙂
Forget I said that....what would I know..😊
MTMiss TI am not sure its an easy comparison. NZ and Iceland are remote sparsely populated countries. The UK (excluding the highlands) is the most densely populated country in Europe 😮, with international trade links around the world and London as the World's most cosmopolitan city. Reykjavic doesn't quite cut it on the world stage 😉.
Germany were "lucky" at the beginning that the infections were amongst mostly young people, and they quickly instituted a test test test policy.
TW had the SARS experience and many Asian countries learnt a BIG lesson then. Korea had 100 testing stations prepared BEFORE their first CV19 case!
Though I do agree the UK response was a bit slow. ☹
Site admin, I found Reykjavik a surprisingly cosmopolitan city, especially Chinese visitors and most of the population of Iceland is on that peninsula so they were rife for an epidemic. Holland is the most densely populated nation in Europe and Rotterdam the busiest port but the Dutch appear to have done better than us. You are correct it is difficult to compare like with like but the US response has been pathetic and the UK definitely slow.
LWLazlo WoodbineI wouldn’t have said that Germany were lucky. Through testing and contact tracing they knew who had the virus and isolated them plus contacts to prevent it spreading to older people. That to me is good management. Many younger people may have had it in the UK without us knowing about it.
BaBal