1/ Thread (Covid-19):

New York

- 453332 cases
- 32887 deaths
- 6400 Nursing Home Deaths (after Cuomo ordered Covid-19 patients into nursing homes)
- Blame healthcare workers for spread
- Highest Death Toll on per State Basis

Cuomo Approval Rating: 66% https://www.newsweek.com/andrew-cuomo-donald-trump-approval-ratings-1516860">https://www.newsweek.com/andrew-cu...
3/ California

- 586056 Cases
- 10648 deaths
- Third Highest Death Toll & Highest Number of Cases of States in the US
- 3400 Nursing Home Deaths
- Alleged Under Counting of Cases4

Newsome Approval Rating: 60% https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/05/newsom-messaging-coronavirus-fatigue-392055">https://www.politico.com/news/2020...
4/ China

- Caused the Virus
- 1m Uighur Muslims in Concentration Camps
- Effectively annex Hong Kong
- Number of Cases: N/A
- Number of Deaths: N/A
- Sold faulty PPE around the glove for millions

China Approval Rating: 100% & the West can& #39;t criticise China without being racist
5/ European Union

- Done largely nothing to combat the crisis, or to aid hard hit countries like Spain & Italy
- Russia & China were quicker to aid Italy than the EU
- EU Chief Scientist resigned after "losing faith in the system"

Approval Rating: Glowing Media Coverage
6/ The point of this thread is this: there is no objective standard being applied to handling of the pandemic.

Coverage is going Tory/Republican/Trump/Boris bad, all the rest good.

Whereas the figures reveal that favoured politicians and organisations have failed the most.
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