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It should have come as no surprise that the U.S. is always tussling for first place in any competition. After all, this is a nation of self-glorifying exceptionalism that has, in the past century, willingly got itself involved and dragged other nations into never-ending hot and cold wars, gratuitous races and consequential confrontations. But when it comes to Bloomberg’s bizarre story that places the U.S. at the top of its so-called “Covid Resilience Ranking”, the absurdity and ridiculousness are still beyond the understanding of any sane person and outside the scope of serious science.
Previously, America ranked first on the 2019 Global Health Security Index compiled by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, with its overall score topping the charts and “the rapid response to and mitigation of the spread of an epidemic” second only to the United Kingdom. We all know what happened the following year.
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In October 2019, right before the world got hit by the biggest global pandemic since 1918 (the Spanish flu), a ranking of 195 countries on their preparedness to deal with a global pandemic was published, and the numbers 1 and 2 (top scorers) on it were two countries that turned out actually to be among the world’s worst on dealing with this new coronavirus. #1 was U.S., and #2 was UK. #3 was Netherlands. By contrast, New Zealand, which turned out to have had the best performance among all of the wealthy or high-per-capita-GDP countries, scored only #35 on it, while two of the world’s very best-performing countries at protecting their respective publics from this global pandemic, Vietnam and China, scored respectively #50 and #51, below 49 countries, all of which 49 other countries turned out to have had actually far higher proportions of their respective national populations come down with the disease and die from it.
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Monday, 5 July 2021, 11:01 am
In October 2019, right before the world got hit by the
biggest global pandemic since 1918 (the Spanish
flu), a ranking
of 195 countries on their preparedness to deal with a
global pandemic was published, and the numbers 1 and 2 (top
scorers) on it were two countries that turned out actually
to be among the world’s worst on dealing with this new
coronavirus. #1 was U.S., and #2 was UK. #3 was Netherlands.
By contrast, New Zealand, which turned out to have had the
best performance among all of the wealthy or
high-per-capita-GDP countries, scored only #35 on it, while
two of the world’s very best-performing countries at