Thread by @DellAnnaLuca

Theory vs practice

https://twitter.com/NightmarePetrol/status/1346200094840934401

Also, the idea that North Korea is ranked third-last should have been a tell.

Isolation and authoritarianism seem an advantage here.

So, let's see who are the IYI who worked on the pile of BS that is this report.

"The GHS Index is a project of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHU) and was developed with The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)"

The US score a 98.2/100 for "early detection & reporting of pandemics".

Singapore – one of the earliest nations to detect the virus – scores only 64. Taiwan is not even on the list.

What a BS of a report.

This kind of post-the-fact analyses are great to reveal piles of BS like this report.

Check this:

The one country in the Western World that has been about last in both suggesting the use of face masks and starting vaccinations is 3rd in this ranking of capacity to protect health workers.

A BS report with a panel of "respectable" "experts".

I've skimmed through the whole report on pandemic preparedness and – I kid you not – I didn't find any consideration of whether a country has a stockpile of PPEs.

PPEs. For a pandemic. Not a factor.

Come on. All those "experts" who worked on this should be fired.

These are the scores for the US.

Come on. It's a 2019 report. It was 2 months old when the pandemic broke out.

The report assigns the same ability to deploy vaccines to Israel (arguably the best) and France (arguably the worst of the countries who secured doses).