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Versus New Zealand, Taiwan has experienced less than 1/2 the COVID-19 cases, and less than 1/2 the deaths.
Taiwan also gets less than 1/2 the news coverage, while having 5x the NZ population and 14x the pop density.
Taiwan is also woman-led: President Tsai Ing-Wen, PhD. (1) https://twitter.com/ClimateHuman/status/1338566294879096832
Taiwan also gets less than 1/2 the news coverage, while having 5x the NZ population and 14x the pop density.
Taiwan is also woman-led: President Tsai Ing-Wen, PhD. (1) https://twitter.com/ClimateHuman/status/1338566294879096832
This spring, a reporter exclaimed "We had to go all the way to New Zealand to find leaders seemingly doing everything right to keep people safe from the spread of Covid19"
Well okay, if Asian success stories are invisible to you, I guess. (2) https://twitter.com/wang_seaver/status/1263539208796254208?s=20
Well okay, if Asian success stories are invisible to you, I guess. (2) https://twitter.com/wang_seaver/status/1263539208796254208?s=20
Thanks to swift early action, Taiwan has not had to implement a lockdown since the pandemic began. Taiwan does plan to keep its strict screening and quarantining of travelers in place, however. (3) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55269729
Mongolia still has yet to have a single person within its borders die from COVID-19. (4) https://twitter.com/wang_seaver/status/1316202251778621441?s=20
Vietnam marked a 99-day streak without community COVID-19 transmission earlier this year, then went on to deliver an 89-day streak starting just weeks after the first streak. (5) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vietnam/vietnam-reports-first-locally-transmitted-covid-19-case-in-89-days-idUSKBN28A1S0
Even allowing for underreported cases and deaths, it's a tremendous achievement given the scale of the Vietnamese population and society. (6) https://twitter.com/wang_seaver/status/1292550280932802560?s=20
And while policymakers in S. Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong are confronting a serious new wave of cases, they have nevertheless achieved considerable success to date containing the pandemic within among the most densely-populated urban centers on earth. (7) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/world/asia/covid-19-asia.html
This is why I'm bewildered at why New Zealand is apparently the example to contrast Europe, the US, etc... against.
Many Asian nations successful at containing COVID have much more in common with the US + Europe in terms of shared challenges.
Except skin color I guess. (8)
Many Asian nations successful at containing COVID have much more in common with the US + Europe in terms of shared challenges.
Except skin color I guess. (8)
Culture, too.
Citizens + politicians in Europe + US are protesting their governments for what they see as overly-restrictive policies.
Whereas slipping public support for leaders in S. Korea, HK + Japan is because of perceptions that governments are being too lax! (END)
Citizens + politicians in Europe + US are protesting their governments for what they see as overly-restrictive policies.
Whereas slipping public support for leaders in S. Korea, HK + Japan is because of perceptions that governments are being too lax! (END)
