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Or..we could ask South Korea which is where Germany got this idea from https://twitter.com/caitlinmoran/status/1309058159462551552
Nothing has revealed global racism more than this pandemic. Many Asian and MENA countries handled this virus exceptionally well, but white people around the world either pined for Sweden (right wingers) or Germany (pretend progressives), https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/whats-south-koreas-secret/611215/
Luckily some of the most respected virologists in Europe constantly mentioned Asian or MENA studies and countries they learned from: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-exemplar-vietnam
It’s hard to find an article that covers this phenomenon, this one tries, although I cringed at the language a few of times... https://theconversation.com/covid-19-has-blown-away-the-myth-about-first-and-third-world-competence-138464
At the beginning of the pandemic, “first world” countries elbowed African countries out of the supply chain for urgent medical equipment, so African representatives built their own platform resulting in a supply chain better than anyone else’s: https://amsp.africa/
...there was barely any media coverage of this, or Senegal’s $1 rapid test development: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/kenya/article/2001369392/senegal-develops-one-dollar-rapid-testing-kit-for-covid-19
Or their development of pandemic robots: https://www.france24.com/en/20200513-senegal-s-engineering-students-design-machines-to-fight-covid-19
An army of which were then deployed to do the work from which so many health workers in the West died from: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-rwanda-robots-idUSKBN2360EW
The list of African pandemic motivated innovations is endless...this was probably my personal favorite...because I’ve been cutting my own hair for 6 months now...and well...let’s just say it’s not a skill I was blessed with
Last one...but I can’t leave out Tunisia’s inventions: https://www.euronews.com/2020/07/17/how-is-tunisia-developing-medtech-to-fight-covid19-with-limited-resources
If you have any other stories like this, please add them. I want to know about all of it..
