Is this true - U.S. best prepared country for pandemic

[packman]

If this is true, it's scary in light of what is going on--

[Turbineguy]

1. This graph must predate trump

[Andy823]

12. That's what I am thinking also

No way is trump and his band of morons ready for this!

[TreasonousBastard]

2. WTF is the Global Health Security Index, and why should we listen to them?

[Hoyt]

11. Seems a legitmate organization.

From the website:

The GHS Index is a project of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHU) and was developed with The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

These organizations believe that, over time, the GHS Index will spur measurable changes in national health security and improve international capability to address one of the world’s most omnipresent risks: infectious disease outbreaks that can lead to international epidemics and pandemics.

[packman]

13. Some info about Global Health

https://www.ghsindex.org/

[DonaldsRump]

3. Yes, but we were then docked a 150 places

Because our "leader" is Trump.

[Stuart G]

4. NO .... This is not true.. Just because of some statistics, does NOT make anything true.

..Statistics can be altered and lied about. And that is not new,......says Stu..................

[Tech]

5. Lies, damned lies, and stastics.

[stillcool]

6. I just looked out my window...

no it isn't true.

[lame54]

7. They obviously didnt factor in...

Trump as president is such a big negative our score would plummet

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. Nope. Definitely not true.

The USA is horribly unprepared for a pandemic because of lack of coordination at local/state/Federal levels, lack of resources in many poorer/rural areas, etc. Look at what a clusterfuck screening for Covid-19 has been (no testing people with symptoms because of no China travel/contact, many of whom later tested positive and/or died).

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. No, not really...

http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/Center-projects/global-health-security-index.html

IF we used the infrastructure we have, IF we had an adult in charge, IF we had not decimated the systems we had in place to deal with this, THEN and ONLY then would we be at the top.

assess a country’s technical, financial, socioeconomic, and political capabilities

We are CAPABLE but directly due to Rump and NOBODY else, we are in reality last on the list because he destroyed our CAPABILITIES and continues to do more harm

RIGHT NOW we could FORCE companies to build ventilators, he wont do it...
RIGHT NOW we could take over HOTELS and use them for hospitals, he wont FUCKING DO IT

He is KILLING YOUR FAMILY and the GOP does nothing and we SIT here and do nothing!

[ornotna]

10. Top of the list of piss poor

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191024115022.htm

Even high-income countries are found lacking and score only in the average range of preparedness

[Phoenix61]

14. They need to work on the questionnaire.

Although this could be used to nail Twitler. If we are the most prepared than we should have the best outcomes. If we don’t it must be his fault.

[GeorgeGist]

15. They didn't consider the stability of the ruling party.