Here's a nice facepalm moment.

USA and UK at the top for rapid response and mitigation of a pandemic....

https://www.ghsindex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-Global-Health-Security-Index.pdf

I'm not taking the John guy's side in the argument, but potatoes are from Peru, we just happen to love them (seriously, potatoes are probably 50% of my food intake in the colder half of the year, at least). Tomatoes and chili peppers are also from Peru.

I know where potatoes are from. And I also know where they are cultivated and eaten the most, which is Europe.

Irish people looking at trees for potatoes could certainly explain one or the other famine.

Tbh russian vodka is cheap and really high quality (usually).
Why would makeing something at a world class level excempt you from being european?

Same with russian champagne/sparkling wine, their basically at level with most of the french ones, but for alot less.

Yeah add chocolate, corn, beans, avocado, peanuts, pineapple, sunflower, sweet potato to the list of foods from South America.. it's nuts how many common foods derived from that region

Imagine if we logged the crap out of this region before we discovered these foods, how much poorer would our diets be today  

Fun Fact about Coffee (from Africa).. It was in what is now Yemen that coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed in a manner similar to how it is now prepared for drinking

Sorry to hear. That's not normal, she should get it investigated as many conditions can cause that. 

Well, yeah.

They had the facilities, the know-how, the tech and the personnel - and both have leaders who totally squandered that lead so much that the result is somewhere at the bottom of the chart now

The power of mother's day was felt world wide.

A lot of countries report for the previous day which was all tallies made on Mother's day. The rest process the tests taken in the weekend. The first group still presents lower numbers today for processing tests taken on Mother's day.

Russia seems to have reached a test plateau again, yet Spain, Belgium and Sweden are up week over week (weekly increase of 150%, 115% and 117%) Spain and Belgium might be temporary outliers, Sweden had a more steady increase but is currently heading back to decrease.

Nanavut turns out to still be spared the virus. The one case reported there turned out to be a false positive. They still live with social distancing measures despite there being no cases there.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/what-life-is-like-in-nunavut-the-only-coronavirus-free-place-in-canada-1.4934244

“All of our schools are closed, including daycares. The stores are open, but they have put in some measures of two-metre distancing at the tills and that includes splashguards for their employees,” Bell said in an interview with CTV News’ Your Morning on Monday.

Another key measure Bell cited was the travel ban put in place on March 24 that only permits residents and essential workers to enter the territory. Anyone approved to travel into Nunavut must undergo a mandatory 14-day isolation period beforehand in either Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton or Yellowknife.

The fact that most of Nunavut’s 25 communities are geographically isolated and are only accessible by plane or boat may help explain why the territory still hasn’t recorded a single case of COVID-19.

I wonder if that report had any doing in making those leaders overconfident. Complacency is the enemy of success.