A Post to all those people that think Boris Johnson is doing the best he can, a good job, just as good as other countries. You may find the following eye opening. If so share it. Yesterday I was putting the record straight on Tory sites. I really dismay and get angry with some people and their level of ignorance. Apart from South Africa, most former colonies in the African continent have been more successful combating Coronavirus than Boris Johnson. That fact may stagger stereotypes. It may also stagger Torygraph Fascist Express, and Daily Fail readers For instance: The 26th largest economy of the world Nigeria, humiliates the handling of coronavirus in the country with the 5th biggest, the UK.
Nigerian popn 200 m, UK 66 m
Nigeria
Total cases 124,000 +1,303
Recovered 99,276 +917
Deaths: 1,522 UK:
Cases: 3,689,746 +20,089
100,162
+1,631
Deaths: 100,162 + 1631
+1,631
With a population 3 times the size of UK, in one year Nigeria had less deaths than BorisLand in one day. WHY??? Nigeria swiftly instituted a strict lockdown as early as April, and, at the same time, the government expanded programs for direct cash transfers to low income citizens. This cushioned economic hardship in a country where 40 percent of the nation lives below the poverty line (and a large share of those people live in extreme poverty). Importantly, the federal government led a coordinated response. This helped to minimize subnational competition or policy inconsistencies across the country’s 36 states.
Nigeria had some other unusual advantages in confronting COVID-19, too. Staying home due to a general strike or for a citywide street cleaning day is not uncommon. In Ibadan, a huge indigenous city bigger than New York, there were Saturdays when only even-numbered or odd-numbered license plates could drive. People see these regulations as cooperation for a common good, not necessarily an intrusion; the libertarian tradition is not so pronounced there! Another advantage Nigeria enjoyed when confronting COVID was the country’s relatively successful experience with Ebola; when the government realized that people with fevers should be quarantined, it deployed touchless thermometers to all the borders.
The Nigerian health care system is poorly developed but Nigeria was among the first countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to identify COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases and has since implemented strict measures to contain the spread of the virus. At the same time, oil prices plummeted by 60% following the spread of the global pandemic. As the oil sector accounts for the bulk of Nigerian government revenue, this collapse in prices has profound implications for the economy.
The economy of Nigeria is a middle-income, mixed economy and emerging market, with expanding manufacturing, financial, service, communications, technology and entertainment sectors. It is ranked as the 26th-largest economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP, and the 24th-largest in terms of purchasing power parity.
https://www.american.edu/sis/news/20201023-how-has-nigeria-handled-the-coronavirus.cfm
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