The countries faring best in the crisis all have-wait for it- female leaders.

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Just a link to an interesting article on how countries with female leaders are faring better. Take it with a pinch of salt, but when you compare with Trump...Actually you could compare a potatoe with Trump and the spud would come out better.

www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/#3f691d073dec

Coincidence ?

I think not.

I think we need to wait and see before we start saying any country has got things right / wrong. Japan has proven that just because you sort out the initial outbreak it doesn’t mean you have a handle on further ones. I imagine New Zealand will be hit fairly badly once they try to return to business as usual - the population there is mostly poor and very remote with limited access to public health facilities.

Well, I was going to accuse the article of cherry picking. I read it, and thought, ha, no Singapore on there.

So I went off and googled Singapore.

And got this.

Can you define 'female leader' please?

Ireland’s leader is a medical doctor and openly gay.
Ireland has 365 deaths so far, in total. Does that count?

The prime minister / president / chancellor doesn’t make all the decision though. For all countries, it’s the government working together to solve the problem, so a combination of both genders. Therefore, this thread is pointless.

You can add Hong Kong to this list (Carrie Lam)

There's also evidence to suggest that countries with an active BCG vaccination program fare better than those without 🤔

All of those countries apart from Germany have very low population so easier to do tests/track etc.

As for New Zealand - wow total lockdown more or less. They will have to not let anyone in ever.

I'm going to hold judgement til it's all over.

Titanic was golden til the compartments breached... turned out it was fucked.