{"id":1171,"date":"2020-04-13T02:21:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T01:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/towncryyers.com\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2020-04-13T02:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T01:21:34","slug":"covid-19-how-world-leaders-responded-to-the-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/towncryyers.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/13\/covid-19-how-world-leaders-responded-to-the-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: How World Leaders Responded To The Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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By Tom Phillips, Richard Orange, David Smith, Emma\nGraham-Harrison, Eleanor Ainge Roy (The Guardian)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jair Bolsonaro \u2013 Brazil<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brazil\u2019s president, Jair Bolsonaro, is one of only a handful\nof world leaders who have played down Covid-19\u2019s threat, for instance by\nsabotaging quarantine measures imposed by nearly all of the country\u2019s state\ngovernors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s raining. We\u2019re going to get wet. And some are going to\ndrown in the rain,\u201d the far-right populist shrugged last week, after dismissing\nthe pandemic as a fantasy. That cavalier attitude has sparked nightly\npot-banging protests and daily media condemnations. They accuse Bolsonaro \u2013 who\napparently thinks shutting down the economy will wreck his chances of\nre-election \u2013 of putting his own political future before Brazilian lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBolsonaro\u2019s reckless behaviour has earned him a position\nnever previously enjoyed by a Brazilian president \u2013 that of international\nvillain,\u201d one conservative broadsheet recently declared. Another paper, the\nFolha de S\u00e3o Paulo, said Brazil needed a Winston Churchill-like statesman to\noffer \u201cblood, toil, tears and sweat\u201d. Unfortunately, the newspaper lamented, it\nhad nothing of the sort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mette Frederiksen \u2013 Denmark<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While many of her European neighbours were fumbling around\nfor a response, Mette Frederiksen closed her country\u2019s borders on 13 March. A\nfew days later she closed kindergartens, schools and universities and banned\ngatherings of more than 10 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This decisiveness appears to have spared Denmark the worst\nof the pandemic: its death toll stands at less than 250, and the number of\npatients being treated in hospital for coronavirus is falling. It has also\nmarked out this skilled and successful politician, who was already the\ncountry\u2019s youngest-ever PM, as a once-in-a-generation national leader. A poll\nat the start of this month found that 79% of Danes thought she was doing a good\njob, a 40 percentage point rise on the month before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her straight-talking speeches and clear instructions to the\nnation have been widely praised. She has even managed to show a sense of fun,\nposting a clip on Facebook of herself doing the dishes while singing along to\n1980s Danish popsters Dodo and the Dodos during the nation\u2019s weekly TV lockdown\nsingalong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Orange<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Donald Trump \u2013 United States<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump has benefited from a \u201crally round the flag\neffect\u201d which, in a crisis, tends to give US presidents a boost, irrespective\nof performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But although 50% of Americans say they approve of his\nhandling of the pandemic, only 37% believe he has shown strong leadership or\ntaken decisive action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Trump\u2019s approval rating lags some 22 points behind that\nof state governors and a similar margin behind many other world leaders \u2013 cause\nfor concern in an election year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats accuse the president of squandering a crucial six\nweeks, when he played down the virus instead of preparing for it. Ron Klain,\nwho led Barack Obama\u2019s fight against Ebola in 2014, said: \u201cThe US response will\nbe studied for generations as a textbook example of a disastrous, failed\neffort.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the president\u2019s allies take the opposite view, praising\nhim for imposing early travel restrictions on China and Europe and overseeing a\ngovernment effort that included sending hospital ships to New York and Los\nAngeles. America, as ever, is divided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Smith in Washington<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Xi Jinping \u2013 China<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

China\u2019s initial cover-up of the emergence of Covid-19, just\nwhen the new disease might have been easiest to contain, overshadows everything\nit has done since. However, its move to quarantine millions in Wuhan, the\ncentre of the crisis, was bold, unprecedented and ultimately successful in\nhalting the spread of the disease inside China, although at considerable human\ncost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outbreak was a huge threat to Xi\u2019s authority, because of\nthe high economic costs and the inevitable questions about governance prompted\nby the crisis, and he initially stayed very much in the background of\ncontainment efforts. However, once it became clear they were working, Xi has\nre-emerged to take full credit for the turnaround.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country\u2019s international propaganda machine is also\nworking overtime to focus on Chinese support for countries in the middle of\nintense outbreaks, and muddy the waters over the origins of the virus, in a bid\nto counter rising anger abroad about China\u2019s initial handling of the outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emma Graham-Harrison<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jacinda Ardern \u2013 New Zealand<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime minister Jacinda Ardern is good in a crisis. The\nmosque attacks in Christchurch, the eruption of Whakaari White Island, and now\nthe Covid-19 crisis, which has brought only four deaths in the country so far,\nhave proved that beyond doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choosing to \u201cgo hard and go early\u201d, Ardern placed the\ncountry in total lockdown on 25 March. The decisive move shocked many Kiwis,\nbut Ardern softened the blow using clear, empathetic language and urging\neveryone to \u201cbe kind\u201d to one another \u2013 a slogan now emblazoned on billboards\naround the country. On the first night of the lockdown, she appeared in her\ntracksuit on Facebook live to reassure the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker says New Zealand\u2019s\n\u201celimination\u201d strategy would not have been possible without Ardern at the helm.\n\u201cThe brilliant, decisive and humane leadership of Jacinda Ardern was\ninstrumental in New Zealand\u2019s rapid change in direction with its response to\nCovid-19, and the remarkably efficient implementation of the elimination\nstrategy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eleanor Ainge Roy in Dunedin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tsai Ing-wen \u2013 Taiwan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taiwan\u2019s close economic and cultural links with China should\nhave made it extremely vulnerable to Covid-19, but it has one of the most\nimpressive track records on containing the virus. Nearly three months after its\nfirst confirmed patient, Taiwan has recorded fewer than 400 cases, and just\nfive deaths; its economy and schools have continued to function largely as\nnormal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tsai\u2019s government, helped by the lessons learned during the\nSars crisis in 2003 and having Chen Chien-jen, an epidemiologist, as\nvice-president, took an extremely proactive approach. Screening of travellers\nfrom Wuhan began in late December, as soon as China warned of a mysterious new\npneumonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a diplomatic level, the crisis has also helped Taiwan\nhighlight Beijing\u2019s heavy-handed approach to excluding it from international\nbodies, including the World Health Organization. The world health watchdog\nfailed to share an early Taiwanese warning of human-to-human transmission of\nthe new virus, which could have helped global efforts to contain the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emma Graham-Harrison<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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