《富比士》雜誌13日在其官網「Leadership」版上刊登一則由作者Avivah Wittenberg-Cox以「What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Reponses Have In Common? Women Leaders」（對新型冠狀病毒疫情做出最佳反應的國家有什麼共通點？女性領導者），文中就列舉多國女性領袖，其中就包括我國總統蔡英文，該文分別列出了台灣、德國、紐西蘭、冰島、芬蘭、挪威、丹麥7國的女性領導者對抗新型冠狀病毒採取的措施。
文中特別以「Decisiveness」（決定性）此項特質為標題說到，最早也是最快採取動作的是台灣領導人蔡英文，早在一月份，出現病例跡象時，她領導政府採取了124個措施來阻止疫情傳播，那時超前部署使她不必採取像其他地區一樣的進行封鎖；而蔡英文現在也正向美國及歐洲等國捐贈1000萬片口罩，CNN也稱，蔡英文對於疫情的處置，是「世界上最好的」的應對措施，並且將疫情控制得當，至今也只宣布了6人死亡。
https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/#20c82c273dec
What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Responses Have In Common? Women Leaders
Political Leaders Showing the Way
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Looking for examples of true leadership in a crisis? From Iceland to Taiwan and from Germany to New Zealand, women are stepping up to show the world how to manage a messy patch for our human family. Add in Finland, Iceland and Denmark, and this pandemic is revealing that women have what it takes when the heat rises in our Houses of State. Many will say these are small countries, or islands, or other exceptions. But Germany is large and leading, and the UK is an island with very different outcomes. These leaders are gifting us an attractive alternative way of wielding power. What are they teaching us?
Truth
Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, stood up early and calmly told her countrymen that this was a serious bug that would infect up to 70% of the population. “It’s serious,” she said, “take it seriously.” She did, so they did too. Testing began right from the get go. Germany jumped right over the phases of denial, anger and disingenuousness we’ve seen elsewhere. The country’s numbers are far below its European neighbours, and there are signs they may be able to start loosening restrictions relatively soon.
Decisiveness
Data from the European Centre for Disease Control as of April 12, 2020
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Among the first and the fastest moves was Tsai Ing-wen’s in Taiwan. Back in January, at the first sign of a new illness, she introduced 124 measures to block the spread, without having to resort to the lockdowns that have become common elsewhere. She is now sending 10 million face masks to the US and Europe. Ing-wen managed what CNN has called “among the world’s best” responses, keeping the epidemic under control, still reporting only six deaths.
Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand was early to lockdown and crystal clear on the maximum level of alert she was putting the country under – and why. She imposed self-isolation on people entering New Zealand astonishingly early, when there were just 6 cases in the whole country, and banned foreigners entirely from entering soon after. Clarity and decisiveness are saving New Zealand from the storm. As of mid-April they have suffered only four deaths, and where other countries talk of lifting restrictions, Ardern is adding to them, making all returning New Zealanders quarantine in designated locations for 14 days.
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Iceland, under the leadership of Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir, is offering free coronavirus testing to all its citizens, and will become a key case study in the true spread and fatality rates of Covid-19. Most countries have limited testing to people with active symptoms. Iceland is going whole hog. In proportion to its population the country has already screened five times as many people as South Korea has, and instituted a thorough tracking system that means they haven’t had to lockdown… or shut schools.
