Thread by @cindygallop

This is extraordinary - and also brilliantly written, by @indica via @ethanz: 'Starting in Jan, Mongolia executed a perfect public health response & they've never let up the pressure since. COVID19 didn't just leave Mongolia alone. Mongolia kicked its ass' medium.com/@indica/covid-…

'But wait, you’ll say. Mongolia? Mongolia with two people per square kilometer? Remote, isolated Mongolia? Wouldn’t COVID just show up and find no one there?
No.' @indica medium.com/@indica/covid-… #COVID19 #coronavirus

'Countries are used to giving aid to places like Mongolia, to sending advisors. It simply does not compute that they should have been getting advice from Mongolia the whole time. ..Coronavirus didn’t leave Mongolia alone. They killed it. Ded.' @indica medium.com/@indica/covid-…

'Jan 22 they held a briefing w @WHO to announce shit was real. There was human-to-human transmission (AKA this is contagious AF) & they'd begun screening. If I could tell you the one secret to Mongolia’s success it’s this:
JANUARY!! JANUARY!!! JANUARY!!!!' medium.com/@indica/covid-…

'Mongolia was putting its big person pants on in Jan. That made all the difference. ..If I hear a vehicle coming around a corner I don’t wait to see the thing, I just move my kids. Mongolia moved their kids. They announced schools would shut down the 27th' medium.com/@indica/covid-…

'Mongolia announced almost all closures in advance. They weren’t like “oh shit, things are on fire get all your food by midnight” (I’m looking at you India). Because they were prepared, they were able to gradually lockdown without all the chaos.' @indica medium.com/@indica/covid-…

'January 26. Another thing to note, Mongolia had zero cases at this point. Everyone was looking at a global dumpster fire being like, “well, my dumpster’s not on fire.” This was dumb. Mongolia was smart.' @indica medium.com/@indica/covid-…

'This is textbook public health. Throughout this crisis Mongolia always looks like they’re overreacting, which is exactly what you’re supposed to do. That’s the only way to fight a virus that only shows up 2 weeks later. Also, IT'S STILL JANUARY!' @indica medium.com/@indica/covid-…

'So at this point, with 0 cases, Mongolia starts actually importing cases, on purpose. In a slow, controlled manner, they start repatriating Mongolians....testing & quarantining them as they came in..in Jan, when most countries were doing nothing' @indica medium.com/@indica/covid-…

'On March 10th, Mongolia recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19. A French national who had arrived from Moscow on March 2nd. Mongolia was ready. They isolated his entire office and the horse he rode in on (it was a train).'
@indica medium.com/@indica/covid-…

'They quarantined the entire district and shut down all trains, cars, and public transport. Mongolia went into partial lockdown. They decontaminated 9.2 million square meters, across 6,000 locations. One case. They did this for one case.'
@indica medium.com/@indica/covid-…

'Mongolia has shown global leadership. Not just zero deaths, zero local cases. Just zero. Nothing happened on their soil. We should all be getting advice from Mongolia and, if possible, some sheep.' @indica medium.com/@indica/covid-…