As US struggles, Africa’s COVID-19 response is praised [by whom?]

Dissociated Press ^ | September 22, 2020 | Cara Anna

[Olog-hai]

At a lecture to peers this month, John Nkengasong showed images that once dogged Africa, with a magazine cover declaring it “The Hopeless Continent.” Then he quoted Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah: “It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.”

The coronavirus pandemic has fractured global relationships. But as director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nkengasong has helped to steer Africa’s 54 countries into an alliance praised as responding better than some richer countries, including the United States.

A former U.S. CDC official, he modeled Africa’s version after his ex-employer. Nkengasong is pained to see the U.S. agency struggle. In an interview with The Associated Press, he didn’t name U.S President Donald Trump but cited “factors we all know.”

While the U.S. surpasses 200,000 COVID-19 deaths and the world approaches 1 million, Africa’s surge has been leveling off. Its 1.4 million confirmed cases are far from the horrors predicted. Antibody testing is expected to show many more infections, but most cases are asymptomatic. Just over 34,000 deaths are confirmed on the continent of 1.3 billion people. …

[Olog-hai]

Still pushing garbage like this a half-year following the shutdowns.

[bassmaner]

Malaria is prevalent in most of Africa ... and what is the standard treatment for malaria ... anyone? Bueller?

[EEGator]

Not DDT, but nets from Liberal White folk?

[Zhang Fei]

Africans rank way down on the BMI rankings just like the Far East. We know obesity is a major risk factor. Where’s the mystery?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_body_mass_index

Is the Orient’s low death rate due to good government or the officialdom’s good fortune to preside over a population of skinny people? I know which way I’d swing, given that they’re no great shakes over much else.

[bassmaner]

Not to mention widespread use of HCQ for treatment of malaria.

[EEGator]

Yep.

I think Mexico and the US are the two fattest countries in the world.
Combine being a fatty, with no exercise, lots of sugar, no Sun, and a pill popping population...

[EEGator]

Same in India, correct?

[dp0622]

Or an alcoholic, or a degenerate gambler, or a heroin injector, or just a jerk.

Some things are worse than being fat :)

Oh and ALL of the generations born in the 20s and 30s... INHALING SNOKE ON purpose!!!!

Not the brightest bunch, to be a generation of puffers.

Like Billy Joel says “the good old days weren’t always good, and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems” :)

[EEGator]

“Or an alcoholic, or a degenerate gambler, or a heroin injector, or just a jerk.

Some things are worse than being fat :)”

Fat people can be all of the above, minus a heroin junkie. :)
(if tv shows are proof)

Adam Ant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41A91X5pns

[Zhang Fei]

[Same in India, correct?]

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Ranked as an African country, India’s per capita income would place somewhere in the middle. Indians are pretty thin, and their death numbers reflect this. India has plenty of deaths from other diseases eradicated in the West, but Wuflu is likely to be a blip as compared to its virulence in more prosperous countries. Mexicans are fat, but with 5x India’s per capita income, they can afford to be.

[KingofZion]

Here’s another op-ed touting the same success and a BS narrative about colonialism:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/22/africa-has-defied-covid-19-nightmare-scenarios-we-shouldnt-be-surprised/

Here’s my guess as to the explanation: (1) Africa has a relatively young population, low life expectancy, and hence fewer old people (2) Africa does not house old people in nursing homes waiting to die (3) No Chinese tourists and shoppers to spread disease. Similar for Europe (4) Africa closed borders more effectively than we did (easier as many of these countries only have a few flights a day to Europe).