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>Covid-19 has exposed how almost all world leaders are useless when faced with big challenges Many countries have done pretty well coordinating a useful respon
by ImaCake 6y ago
>Covid-19 has exposed how almost all world leaders are useless when faced with big challenges
Many countries have done pretty well coordinating a useful response against this virus. The US has done terribly, but there are plenty of examples of other nations responding well to it.
- jarym 6y agoI think you’re mistaken. No one started to care until Italy happened weeks after the WHO warnings. China locking down 11m people didn’t ring any alarm bells in the west. Even when Italy happened not all countries reacted, instead thinking ‘oh we don’t have that problem we’re fine’ And then as cases did go up other countries for ‘creative’ with their handling - the UK totally gave up on testing in March and was secretly thinking to ‘ride it out’ and go for herd immunity. So the few examples where it was handled well (say Taiwan and South Korea) are irrelevant when considering the strength of the overall global response. Now, for dealing with melting ice sheets we need more than a majority of countries working together to prevent an event that will displace millions of people but right now the response is similar to how we responded to COVID - but imo the stakes are higher now.
- ImaCake 6y agoMy point is that not all countries did bad. Many countries did poorly, but many others responded well to the crisis and have either kept cases down, had very few deaths, or managed to suppress their outbreaks. > China locking down 11m people didn’t ring any alarm bells in the west. Yes it did. Australia and NZ started preparing very early for this outbreak. The results are very evident. The US and the UK responded terribly, and their people should be very angry.
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