The average overall GHS Index score is 40.2 out of a possible 100. While high-income countries report an average score of 51.9, the Index shows that collectively, international preparedness for epidemics and pandemics remains very weak.
translation: Johns Hopkins gets huge gobs of grant money from the CDC. They will always have their back.
Except that one country.
Something an old friend used to say at work :)
We’d get an email saying our company beat out all others in revenues an he’d say “except that one company”.
Or “this band was the greatest ever”..”except that one band”..
IT SEEMED FUNNY AT THE TIME!
Anyway he died of colon cancer at 40...Nothing funny about that.
I need another drink...
Read “The Black Swan” by Nassim Taleb
Centralized, bureacratic, top-down systems are paralyzed and destroyed by unexpected events. Diverse, dispersed, independent actors survive, can respond, and thrive with unexpected events.
American socialists have for years been trying to create such top-down, centrally-controlled and planned health and other systems in the USA. Thank God they haven’t fully succeeded.
Thats why the messed up response by CDC and FDA is so inexplicable and troubling. This should never have happened
I preface this comment by saying that we are following all the protocols etc. The scare tactics being pushed by some remind me of taking Driver’s Ed 55 years ago. During the in class part of the course, we were shown a horrific movie of the aftermath of bad auto accidents, including plenty of footage of dead/dismembered/crushed people being removed from cars and/or under cars etc.
Didn’t change our much too fast and risky driving one bit, but can you imagine that being shown to today’s teens? Oh, the trauma.
Old article already posted.
Same question as last time it was posted: Why then are we apparently, per the curve and deaths, doing so poorly.
This article is self-serving to CDC and fawning by their ward Johns Hopkins.
BS.
bkmk
Once they find out it is being touted by Trump for his campaign, they will revise the study to say the US was the worst prepared nation.
We’ve had a global fire drill, the world should be better prepared and we can see problem areas.
Given the HYSTERIA around the topic, 10 MINUTES OF COMMON SENSE from a scientist in the field.
Has anyone VETTED the SCIENTISTS now surrounding & “advising” Trump? How many are leftist Democrats with a political agenda? Consider the STILL NOT CLEANED OUT Deep State INFECTED DOJ & God knows how many other government departments.
Have we ever been lied to by the managerial class in government whose jobs depend on how submissive they can keep the rest of us?
How many of them HATE TRUMP & his stated goal to DRAIN THEIR SWAMP?
Heard the stories that CDC employees wept when Trump beat Hillary? How objective would THOSE folks be collecting & analyzing the data? And wouldn’t a “SCARE” like this serve to open the tax slave (er PAYER) money sigot for them, as another government operation, to piss away on “research” (or whatever)?
Anybody know???
I didn’t think so.
One final thought: Could this just be another of the periodic tests conducted by Deep State leftists who would be more at home in Stalin’s Russia than Trump’s America to see if their century long socialist indoctrination in the GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS has enough of us sufficiently DUMBED DOWN to make their long awaited FINAL PUSH?
Just asking evidence based questions here.