Original title: The United States once again ranked among the top five in Bloomberg’s “Global Anti-epidemic Ranking”
[Global Times-Global Network Reporter Bai Yunyi]On the 29th, Bloomberg released a new issue of the “Global Anti-epidemic Ranking”. Norway ranked first, the United States ranked fifth, and China ranked ninth. In this regard, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Zhao Lijian said on the 30th that this ranking is not worth wasting energy and is only suitable for “paying a laugh and having a chat after dinner”.
“Some time ago, Bloomberg listed the United States as the world’s top anti-epidemic country. I said that the people of the world will take it as a post-dinner talk. Today, a friend asked me again that the United States is still the country with the largest number of new crown pneumonia infections and deaths, but Bloomberg ranks among the top five in the latest anti-epidemic rankings. What is the logic? Bloomberg will not print the wrong report again, right?” Zhao Lijian said at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that day.
He said that Bloomberg said that the ranking is based on epidemic containment, medical quality, vaccination coverage, death coverage, and the restart of travel and border restrictions as of last month. People feel that epidemic containment and overall mortality are the two factors alone. Indicators, the United States should not be among the top five. However, Bloomberg said that compared with the previous peak of the epidemic, the number of deaths in the United States this year is small, and social and commercial activities have basically returned to normal, so it ranked in the top five.
“This kind of reasoning logic can even be seen by elementary school students. This ability to reverse black and white and justify itself is really amazing. You don’t have to waste more energy on this ranking. You can just laugh and talk after dinner.”
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