My response to this is that any pandemic requires a proactive response. We got a reactive one.
So in reality Boris was also using hind sight.
To be honest I don’t think being proactive is in the Conservative politicians makeup. Being proactive means investing time, effort and often money in things before they escalate. That really doesn’t appear to be in the Tory make up. Well not for the last 12 years or so anyway.
India’s positivity rate versus population suggests the actual number of cases is significantly higher. Then you look at a country like Bangladesh, 3 million tests to discover 500k cases in a population of 160 million. Almost certainly a tiny fraction of the cases that have actually occurred. Pakistan and the Philippines are similar case numbers and test numbers, both countries with 100M+ (Pakistan over twice that). Testing regimes in Asia seem to be two types - confirming people that physicians already think are positive, and using testing to eradicate (Singapore, Taiwan). India is actually an outlier somewhere between the two, a healthcare system lacking resources but is still fighting to achieve containment.
Also, per capita I think the West has more rat-licking morons. Places like India have dealt with similar albeit lesser challenges repeatedly in recent memory.
Case in point. Fuck me. I also have a video of the incident but no idea how to put it on here:
I recognised the bakkie because I also had an encounter with these fucks when they were driving like maniacs through the centre of town on Sunday. Stupid cunts and not a mask in sight with anyone involved.
Bollocks!!
Penguins matter too! 
Black and white lives matter!
So Boris is responsible for the whole of Europe then? Who knew?
Obviously 
He also caused the floods before Noah’s Ark he’s that bad.
Don’t be daft.
Despite the BBC warning of the impending flood and Farage chasing boats in the channel chasing boats full of refugees, Boris would have missed 5 COBRA meetings, before listening to Cummings who “knew” that the cliffs of Dover would high enough to ward off any flood. When the UCL then suggested that London would be lost because of the Thames he immediately hires Tory donors on a mass boat building campaign using Swiss cheese while ignoring existing boats and ship services.
Our Health Minister has taken umbrage to your Matt Hancock, it seems.
Would you mind letting him know that there’s a massive queue?
Thanks for treating my comment with the seriousness it deserved 
Give him credit; he also mopped them up.
With his hair.
According to worldometer:
22.5 millions cases in Europe so far.
22 millions in North America
12.8 millions in South America.
20 millions in Asia.
2.6 millions in Africa.
Less than 48k in Oceania
The disparity is startling to be honest. I’m especially taken aback by the few cases in Africa.
Oceania being an accumulation of islands can help to understand why there are so few cases, and the high level of prevention in important Asian countries explains why they have less cases than in Europe and America.
But Africa? I’m at a loss to find any kind of rational explanation for so few cases. Anyone has an idea? 
Lack of testing in conjunction with alot of remote areas where medical facilities aren’t that prevalent or able to service the population in those areas (this is also true in urban sprawl btw) would be my guess. I really think the true number is far higher than that. We have a fairly strong economy, a fairly well developed medical infrastructure, a fairly competent logistical system and a passable government in comparison to alot of Africa and we still test only in the region of 40-maybe 50k on a daily basis.
For Africa, lack of testing is definitely a factor, but of course not necessarily the only one. Its telling that Botswana and Mauritius, two of the smallest countries in Africa in population, is number one and two in tests per 1M population and yet only comes in around 80th position in that ranking compared to the rest of the world. Costs of testing is definitely a constraint and in countries who may not have the means, even in SEA, I heard from my contacts that people in remote areas who passed away or fell sick were never tested and this is just how “cheap” life is for people in some of these areas compared to some countries. To put it bluntly, in a way because this virus have a low fatality rate in most instances, some of these countries would just adopt an out of sight, out of mind mentality.
The 16% positivity rate is a tell-tale of that high level of community contagion.
Clearly not Everton fans.
Can’t speak for Africa as a whole, but some parts of Africa have very good infrastructure in place when it comes to dealing with infectious diseases and viruses due to their already having delt with various issues like HIV, Ebola, Malaria so have got their track &^ trace networks already established so when coronavirus hit they could handle the control of it better - similar to places like Taiwan, Soth Korea, Singapore, they already knew what steps at certain points to take to give them the best chance of minimising the disruption and effect it had on their society
I think that is a fair comment - some of those countries have not needed extensive testing to execute some effective programs to slow the spread.