Chinese virus deaths per capita (per million): Belgium 840, UK 642, Spain 606...Sweden 523....USA 388

Not "some pretext" but real, concrete differences. It's fascinating that you ignore every relevant variable as if the US should be condemned for doing a "poorer job" handling the virus than...say Cameroon (only 12 deaths per million). Why is the death rate in Taiwan (.3), a country you singled out for praise, over 3 times higher than that of Myanmar (0.1)? Why are both so much better than any of the Scandinavian nations you praised? Did Taiwan and Russia do a vastly superior job to Western Europe in implementing competent policies?

After all, you call it "performance" and label it "dreadful", assuming a nation's death rate is entirely dictated by government leadership (well...certain leadership; you're apparently ignorant of how the decentralized US political system works).

By your logic the Third World has done a wonderful job handling the Chinese virus while the First World has screwed the pooch. Cameroon is on the rise while Belgium and Sweden are facing "national delusion and decline".

It doesn't occur to you that the richest nations are being hit harder, in part, because they're rich. Again, that means more international and internal travel. One would actually expect the US, the richest nation with the most mobile population, one receiving massive international visit numbers from both Asia and Europe, to be the hardest hit. If anything it's noteworthy that it's not.

You've been operating on false premises from the beginning. First, the talking point about Trump supposedly disbanding the pandemic team was complete BS that was debunked long ago, including by the people running pandemic prep efforts. If anything their resources were expanded under Trump over Obama, who left no infrastructure for dealing with something on this scale. Trump's administration had to replace long existing CDC plans on the fly, doing an impressive job under fire and leaving us much better set up for the next pandemic.

Since the expert modeling predicted 2 million US deaths, with 100-250k being the best case scenario if all mitigation protocols were followed, then it’s unreasonable to call 130k an “objectively dreadful performance”. It’s objectively not, setting aside for the moment whether your use of the word “performance” is appropriate as opposed to “outcome”.

You need to believe that Trump has done a terrible job with the Chinese virus. (btw, let me know if you need help figuring how to code stressing in posts)

Contrary to your implication, I never claimed Trump or the US in general handled the virus perfectly. More importantly, I never called the situation a great outcome. My straightforward, sourced, factual op, devoid of any commentary on politics or policy, certainly wasn’t the “celebration” you falsely accused it of, and was posted in the context of partisan propaganda flying so thick that I could see people’s view of reality becoming distorted.

Specifically the media has been routinely repeating that the US has by far the most deaths of any nation in the world. While technically true, that’s misleading given that the US has the 3rd largest population, and is the only First World nation anywhere near the top. Per capita stats are almost entirely absent from news coverage and from most threads here. Dubbing it the “Trump Virus” in a bit of disgusting partisan chicanery is exposed as even more ludicrous when one sees those telling stats.

It’s also a mistake to treat every nation as if it’s equal size and equally vulnerable. What I posted is worth listing since those nations ranking higher than the US in death rate not only represent most of the countries American leftists routinely demand we emulate, but combined they make up most of Western Europe. That’s a big deal, given that what people call the “First World” mostly consists of the USA, Western Europe, and outlying British Commonwealth countries with small populations.

In fact in the face of that “performance” versus other First World nations, it’s hard to rationally argue that Trump, or most US governors or mayors, have done a bad job. Not perfect, of course, but I think Trump has done about as well as any president realistically could have under the circumstances.

The virus is a serious, devastating thing, but the numbers just don’t support its exploitation by Trump haters for political fodder. And even if you disagree, the information I posted is useful in correcting the perception of people who have only been exposed to the ubiquitous “US has the most deaths” refrain. To justify attacking my streamlined, fact based op, you’d have to argue that we’re better off not knowing per capita stats than knowing them.

PS - For the record it's "krl", not "kri". Aside from the fact that there's no logical reason to assume the third letter is suddenly upper case when the preceding two are both lower case (Occam's Razor), you didn't capitalize it anyway, lol. Come on, now.

So not the safest, but nowhere near the worst. And safer than most of the major First World nations.

And modern Germans are more used to being restricted and....following orders.

I’m sure you’ve noticed when the lefty lemmings cannot reply in a sane factual way, they resort to insults?🤷🏼‍♀️ Once you present facts the fangs come out 👹, the insults are lobbed or the most frequent way they respond...they cannot counter you...so they slither away.🐍