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The entire world is protesting. There's a growing distrust of lockdown measures among the common man. A distrust that is being fueled by petty politics in some nations. The coronavirus has infected more than a million people in the United States but an anti-lockdown fever is infecting millions more because the American president does not want to be too tough - even in the face of death.
President Trump wants to hold election rallies. The US president does not want to sit in the most dangerous health crisis the world has ever faced. Neither do some Silicon Valley billionaires like the tech titan Elon Musk.
The Test CEO wants America to be "freed", he thinks "forcing" people to stay at home is "Fascist". However, another billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg thinks otherwise. The Facebook CEO is against easing lockdown measures.
Zuckerberg says a reopening would only guarantee future outbreaks and worse outcomes. Both these men are adding to a nationwide divide because they have had different experiences under the lockdown.
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Tesla which has suspended production is unsure if it can limit any future losses while Facebook has reported a surge in usage amid global lockdowns. For Zuckerberg and Musk it's just business. For the US president its about his political future. What it really is --- is a matter of life, death, and empathy.
Something that a few nations and a few leaders figured out early and are winning. New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern, Finland's Sanna Marin and Taiwan's Tsai ing-Wen. These three are being called premiers made for a pandemic.
New Zealand has less than 1,500 cases and six deaths, Finland just 206 deaths and Taiwan a region located just miles away from China confirmed its first death way back on February 16, today Taiwan has just 429 cases and 6 deaths.
What's common between these countries besides a lower rate of infection? That they put politics on the back-burner and
united their citizens in the face of peril. A lesson which some superpowers are yet to learn.