The West is ignoring the lessons learned in Asia Pacific on how to handle Covid. Hubris, muddled messaging and terrible failures in the basic principles of epidemiology is why the second wave has established itself in the Global North. My latest: cnn.com/2020/10/12/eur… Instead of taking stock of their failures, some Western commentators and politicians have floated crackpot herd immunity ideas & resorted to an orientalist mindset to why citizens can’t wear masks or listen to rules to keep the epidemic in check cnn.com/2020/10/12/eur…