How Turkey managed ...not to have COVID-19 cases. Lessons from successful management!
How Turkey managed not to have COVID-19 cases.
Lessons from successful management.
Turkey has a border with Iran and Istanbul has the world's biggest airport and Turkey one of the hottest destinations for European tourists. But Turkey successfully managed to prevent any cases. I need to share this you step by step guide for any policymaker in the world.
1 - Don't test anyone.
This is the key but it's not that easy. If you don't test anyone people won't trust you. So you should hide the fact that you are not testing. So the rest of the guide about how to not test.
2 - Never let hospitals test alone.
Have a centralized testing facility so every hospital sends samples there so have to rely on your tests.
3 - Don't make news about the virus.
Turkish media controlled by Erdogan. Turkey has the highest amount of journalists in prison in the world. So no journalist will be spreading "fake news". When people don't hear about the virus they won't be alarmed.
4 - Develop your test kit.
Turkey developed its own test kit. They claim it gives results in 15 minutes and the highest accuracy in the world. So the world's best test kit super-fast results and super accurate. But it never gave any positive results yet. So when doctors see test kit says "negative" they have no way to prove it's positive.
5 - Have an ongoing economical crisis.
Turkey has an ongoing economic crisis and relies on tourism revenue. If tourists are going to stop visiting Turkey, this year the economy will totally collapse. Since Erdogan now at war in Syria, economical collapse will be the end of his rule.
6 - Have a semi-authoritarian regime.
None of the above-mentioned steps could be completed if everyone has freedom of speech. So there should be a leader which can send people to prison anytime he pleases. So no one will be brave enough to spread fake news.
7 - Control social media.
Turkey has the highest amount of requests from Twitter to learn users' IP addresses and punish users. They also have the highest number of requests to Reddit to remove content. So if random people spread fake news you can easily send them to prison.
8 - Quarantine people (Optional)
If you don't you won't look like that you are managing well. So just quarantine people as a normal country would do. So you can give relief.
If you follow these steps hopefully you'll manage to have no cases at all. Your tourism incomes going to feed your authoritarian regime. Stay clean from viruses stay in the power!
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