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malaise

(267,801 posts)
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 06:44 AM Apr 2020

What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Responses Have In Common? Women Leaders - Must Read

https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/#3e3922e3dec4
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Looking for examples of true leadership in a crisis? From Iceland to Taiwan and from Germany to New Zealand, women are stepping up to show the world how to manage a messy patch for our human family. Add in Finland, Iceland and Denmark, and this pandemic is revealing that women have what it takes when the heat rises in our Houses of State. Many will say these are small countries, or islands, or other exceptions. But Germany is large and leading, and the UK is an island with very different outcomes. These leaders are gifting us an attractive alternative way of wielding power. What are they teaching us?

Truth
Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, stood up early and calmly told her countrymen that this was a serious bug that would infect up to 70% of the population. “It’s serious,” she said, “take it seriously.” She did, so they did too. Testing began right from the get-go. Germany jumped right over the phases of denial, anger and disingenuousness we’ve seen elsewhere. The country’s numbers are far below its European neighbors, and there are signs it may be able to start loosening restrictions relatively soon.

Decisiveness
List of Countries with Female Leaders and Coronavirus death rates
Data from the European Centre for Disease Control as of April 12, 2020 20-FIRST
Among the first and the fastest responses was from Tsai Ing-wen in Taiwan. Back in January, at the first sign of a new illness, she introduced 124 measures to block the spread without having to resort to the lockdowns that have become common elsewhere. She is now sending 10 million face masks to the U.S. and Europe. Tsai managed what CNN has called “among the world’s best” responses, keeping the epidemic under control, still reporting only six deaths.

Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand was early to lockdown and crystal clear on the maximum level of alert she was putting the country under – and why. She imposed self-isolation on people entering New Zealand astonishingly early, when there were just 6 cases in the whole country, and banned foreigners entirely from entering soon after. Clarity and decisiveness are saving New Zealand from the storm. As of mid-April they have suffered only four deaths, and where other countries talk of lifting restrictions, Ardern is adding to them, making all returning New Zealanders quarantine in designated locations for 14 days.

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What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Responses Have In Common? Women Leaders - Must Read (Original Post) malaise Apr 2020 OP
YES, damnit! YESSS. N/T Guilded Lilly Apr 2020 #1
Well that's shocking. Pacifist Patriot Apr 2020 #2
ROFL malaise Apr 2020 #4
And I can only shake my head thinking how different things would have been if we had the woman Pachamama Apr 2020 #3
Agreed. That gif is devastating now. smh. crickets Apr 2020 #7
Butter Emails IronLionZion Apr 2020 #5
Yup malaise Apr 2020 #6
What about Korea? They have a male president and they have received praise from the WHO totodeinhere Apr 2020 #8
That too is true malaise Apr 2020 #9
Of course we impeached our "leader' too but the Repugs in the Senate would not have it. totodeinhere Apr 2020 #10
Ditto malaise Apr 2020 #11

Pachamama

(16,874 posts)
3. And I can only shake my head thinking how different things would have been if we had the woman
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 08:33 AM
Apr 2020

...that a majority had elected to be President instead of the incompetent toddler-in-chief we are stuck with currently.


IronLionZion

(45,256 posts)
5. Butter Emails
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 09:50 AM
Apr 2020


I'm all for electing more women leaders but some liberal states and Asian countries had great responses to this pandemic with quick decisive action. South Korea even delivered care packages to their infected people self-quarantining so they wouldn't have to worry about buying food and necessary supplies. The Indian state of Kerala did aggressive mandatory quarantining and contact tracing early on for their citizens returning from China and any travelers sharing the same flight with a person who tested positive.

Having liberal leaders with a scientific mindset is a closer correlation than gender. There are some US states with absolutely deplorable responses from their conservative women leaders.

I voted for Hillary but even Obama and Biden would have done the right thing. Newsom and Cuomo did have good responses in their states. I voted for Muriel Bowser, a black woman, who has done quick decisive action to keep us safe here in DC.

The articles and memes on these women leaders include Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan mainly because the other women are white.

totodeinhere

(13,034 posts)
8. What about Korea? They have a male president and they have received praise from the WHO
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 02:51 PM
Apr 2020

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for how they have handled this crisis.

totodeinhere

(13,034 posts)
10. Of course we impeached our "leader' too but the Repugs in the Senate would not have it.
Thu Apr 16, 2020, 03:51 PM
Apr 2020

Notice I put the word "leader" in quotes because I do not regard him as our leader.

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