Thoughts 💭 on COVID 19 Crisis Responses from the 🌏: A Thread 🧵-
1./ With regard to the two prominent transatlantic western economies: the much vaunted ‘Big bad’ US🇺🇸 & the ‘Punch-Above-Our- Weight’, but currently listless Britain 🇬🇧...
1./ With regard to the two prominent transatlantic western economies: the much vaunted ‘Big bad’ US🇺🇸 & the ‘Punch-Above-Our- Weight’, but currently listless Britain 🇬🇧...
2./ China 🇨🇳 initially lost face when they tried to dissociate the Central government from Wuhan, calling it the ‘Wuhan Virus’ 🦠Furthermore, they made things worse by not reporting accurate figures to the WHO...
3./Their data reporting is still arguably suspect, if the recent US Intelligence estimate are to be believed.However, they redeemed themselves in the manner in which they were able to shut down activities in Hubei Province, tackling the COVID 19 pandemic...
4./ with a clinical efficiency & ferocity only seen and replicated in South Korea 🇰🇷, Taiwan 🇹🇼 Singapore 🇸🇬 & maybe Germany 🇩🇪. Furthermore, China’s 🇨🇳 N-85 mask 😷 & Respirator diplomacy, led by Jack Ma’s philanthropic efforts is a form of ‘jujitsu in action’...
5./Massive PR Coup for the Chinese.Still not sure 🤔 of d accuracy of #COVID19 statistics. Perhaps, we will soon realize that they had been padding figures.History will not be kind to populist blowhards like @realDonaldTrump, #borisjohnson & @jairbolsonaro #Victororban 🥺🤬😵End/
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