Interesting article...it will be quite revealing when all the dust settles after this pandemic and the analysis is published. I don’t think some of the Western countries will rank too well in how they dealt with it. I do agree that there is an overweeningly patronising attitude towards Africa and any part of the world, we in the supposed more advanced west, consider to be inferior.

Africa of course, both their governments and populations, has previous experience with a wide range of tropical diseases, especially malaria. They also take things seriously, and don't pander to spoiled brat elements within the population.