Here's how world leaders have responded to COVID-19
As the coronavirus outbreak spreads around the world, world leaders are beginning to spread the same message.
World leaders united as they aim to unite their countries against COVID-19
A medical war against an invisible enemy
By mid March, people all across the globe were able to tune in to broadcasts of their leaders equating the dire nature of this pandemic to a time of war. This is mostly to imply that a combined and concerted effort from all citizens and some sectors of private industry would be required to most effectively combat the scourge threatening the economic health of these nations and, more importantly, the lives of its citizens. While there were subtle differences, many echoed the words of Britain’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, from March 17th: “We must act like any wartime government and do whatever it takes to support our economy.”
Sacrifices required across the board
Even though, thankfully, a majority of people in the world won’t fall victim to this virus directly, world leaders are in chorus in their plea to all citizens: support each other, make collective sacrifices and change our habits, short term, so that we don't all feel the long term pain of these times. “We will take on this crisis, and we will get through it together, by each of us being responsible for ourselves and for others,” says President Macron of France.
A moment to define a generation
Understanding the drastic nature of the changes, steps, and sacrifices being requested, leaders go on to underscore the fact that this sort of action hasn't been necessary since the middle of the twentieth century, or earlier. If ever there were to be a period of time to define a generation or generation(s), it is now. Moments like these that have no true precedent in recent memory highlight our collective fragility and remind us that complacency and creature comforts can lead to a lack of preparedness. President Trump mentioned this very issue in some of his signature, off-script, rambling sentence fragment style: “They never did - nobody has ever done anything like what we're doing. If the President of the United States finds himself in a brand new position it suddenly must hold true that nobody else in human history has either.
Brut.
30 comments
Brigitta B.
06/15/2020 23:57So stupid just look at him hahhahaha
Barbara C.
05/06/2020 11:36Vote Blue America
Sandy F.
05/03/2020 00:54Failures! Disease and Death because they are all sociopaths! Get them out of office!
Lin I.
03/30/2020 15:01Unfortunately By the time they are ready to go to war the invisible enemy already winning...
Michael W.
03/29/2020 16:59Trump is a idiot
Jean-pierre B.
03/27/2020 16:54l'"unité contre le virus" ne va pas jusqu'à inclure l'Iran
Jeejo S.
03/27/2020 14:39Who is the most dangerous invisible ENEMY? Does the ENEMY live in this world on the Earth, even now ,with us? Or are you pointing to the ENEMY outside the Earth? Or the UNKNOWN,BEYOND and ABOVE the ENEMY as ALMIGHTY?
Emmanuelle P.
03/27/2020 09:19Mais vs ne pensez pas que la solution d avoir minimiser c pour répondre à la surpopulation et ensuite montrer que ns sommes pas indépendants ...s exprimer s interroger sur la future société .....en fait à qui réussit le confinement aux gafas ...la mondialisation même ds des cas de guerre développé les news technologies attentivement n on vs piste ...les contrôles viendront plus tard...pensez vs que la bonté ds ce monde est présente?
Angela D.
03/26/2020 16:41Absolutely terrifying..
Josephine K.
03/26/2020 08:20All Jerks at once... Cut .. copy.. paste..& Trump: cannot even say without reading it🙄 Very hard to say which one is copping
Josephine K.
03/26/2020 08:05Trump is reading 🤔🤨😠😡😡👿
Josephine K.
03/26/2020 08:04COPY PASTE PEOPLE NOT LEADERS IN ANY SENSE
Dili D.
03/26/2020 06:33https://www.facebook.com/436951180468037/posts/653100282186458/?d=n
Hunter C.
03/26/2020 01:16Seems like wold leaders are spreading the Virus
Israel S.
03/25/2020 23:50lies, lies, lies, is easier to blame things in the "INVISIBLE ENEMY" than take responsability of their stupid mistakes... what a clowns...
Claudia T.
03/25/2020 20:32If the US declares war against Coronavirus trump will get a note from his podiatrist.
Erika F.
03/25/2020 18:34hmmm??
Robert S.
03/25/2020 17:39Only dumbtrump gotta read it an reads it ,badly.
Jw A.
03/25/2020 15:25So sad it took Donald Trump three months to realize it we could have had one hell of a jump on it now look where we at
Julie L.
03/25/2020 15:22Cost cuts.. employing same speech writer 🤔