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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7942753" data-attributes="member: 4937">Right now almost everyone doing a good job of this is in Asia, in part because I think they've been through this before with SARS and actually absorbed the lessons of that.Nations/territories doing a decent job:Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Israel, Singapore, Bahrain, Qatar, New ZealandSurprisingly, if you get past all the initial denial, corruption, and cover up (and granted, it's really hard to get over that), China has done a really good job once they started to take it seriously. It's been authoritarian and brutal, but its been effective and many nations have done much worse.Hitherto I might give C's to Germany, Denmark, Poland, and Norway. Germany has numbers that look a lot like South Korea. Denmark and Norway had the bad luck to be in the Schengen zone, but seem to be recovering from that. They have proportionately some of the worst outbreaks in the world, so things could get really bad for them for a while but they seem to be containing now which is impressive because the list of countries that appear to be is very small. Pretty much the rest of Europe gets an F. That March 4th emergency meeting will go down in the history books as one of the worst civic reactions in the history of government. I had to pick myself off the floor when I read the outcome, and the more I thought about it the more I went from dumbstruck to angry. Well, enough of that. Not my country.If you were holding a civil trial, China, Italy, and Iran would need to pay damages. Between the three of them, the rest of the world is screwed.I was giving a D to USA up until about 5 days ago when we finally got serious about this.&nbsp;&nbsp; Final grade to be evaluated when the SHTF some time in the next week or two.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7942753, member: 4937"] Right now almost everyone doing a good job of this is in Asia, in part because I think they've been through this before with SARS and actually absorbed the lessons of that. Nations/territories doing a decent job: Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Israel, Singapore, Bahrain, Qatar, New Zealand Surprisingly, if you get past all the initial denial, corruption, and cover up (and granted, it's really hard to get over that), China has done a really good job once they started to take it seriously. It's been authoritarian and brutal, but its been effective and many nations have done much worse. Hitherto I might give C's to Germany, Denmark, Poland, and Norway. Germany has numbers that look a lot like South Korea. Denmark and Norway had the bad luck to be in the Schengen zone, but seem to be recovering from that. They have proportionately some of the worst outbreaks in the world, so things could get really bad for them for a while but they seem to be containing now which is impressive because the list of countries that appear to be is very small. Pretty much the rest of Europe gets an F. That March 4th emergency meeting will go down in the history books as one of the worst civic reactions in the history of government. I had to pick myself off the floor when I read the outcome, and the more I thought about it the more I went from dumbstruck to angry. Well, enough of that. Not my country. If you were holding a civil trial, China, Italy, and Iran would need to pay damages. Between the three of them, the rest of the world is screwed. I was giving a D to USA up until about 5 days ago when we finally got serious about this. Final grade to be evaluated when the SHTF some time in the next week or two. [/QUOTE]

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