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https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2020/04/ardern-merkel-
breed-newsom/610351/

APRIL 21, 2020
Caroline Mimbs Nyce - Atlantic magazine
Senior associate editor

When the coronavirus hit, these four leaders acted swiftly.
"This outbreak is the ultimate worldwide leadership test. As my colleague Uri Friedman wisely put it:

Every leader on the planet is facing the same potential threat. Every leader is reacting differently, in his or her own style. And every leader will be judged by the results.
Today, we’re examining four leaders who have been praised for their competency. All govern areas with notably low rates of infection—meaning, to varying degrees, that their effectiveness may have translated into better health outcomes for their citizens. Here’s a look at how they led.

Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s prime minister

Ardern is an empathetic leader with a background in communication, and it shows: Her messaging has been “clear, consistent, and somehow simultaneously sobering and soothing,” Uri notes.

And she may be the most effective leader on the planet right now, he argues. With just 13 deaths so far, New Zealand is on track to eliminate its outbreak altogether.

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor

Merkel, a former research scientist who holds a doctorate in quantum chemistry, is “less a commander in chief and more a scientist in chief.”

“Germany’s leader has deployed her characteristic rationality, coupled with an uncharacteristic sentimentality, to guide the country through what has thus far been a relatively successful battle against COVID-19,” the writer Saskia Miller reports in a dispatch from Berlin.

Gavin Newsom, the governor of California

The first-term governor’s aggressive, swift response to the outbreak appears to be paying off: Though the state is under-tested, California’s curve looks far flatter than that of New York.

Todd S. Purdum writes from Los Angeles: “Newsom’s approach is also the clearest sign yet that California’s exceptionalism … may well be the new American exceptionalism.”

London Breed, the mayor of San Francisco

Days before Newsom shut down the state, Mayor Breed shut down her city. Her early action, then controversial, likely helped keep San Francisco’s numbers comparatively low.

“She did the right thing at the right time, even though it’s not what people wanted to hear,” Senator Kamala Harris, one of Breed’s political mentors, told my colleague Russell Berman."

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Macron?

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