But Africa’s Covid apocalypse never materialized, and a few sub-Saharan countries, like Senegal, had some of the best outcomes in the world.8 These outcomes suggest that contrary to received wisdom, the conditions that Western elites have long stigmatized as “backward” and “underdeveloped” may in fact create certain kinds of resilience. It was probably because African leaders had prior experience of infectious diseases, and were therefore well aware of the fragility of their health care systems, that they took prompt and decisive action, while their Western counterparts complacently assumed
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This illustrates the arrogance of the "developed world" quite aptly.
