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adjl posted...

Not remotely. The US was one of the last major countries to have Covid become enough of a problem to warrant large-scale action, and even then they were still slow to adopt proper lockdown measures. Countries that started fighting well before the US did are just now cautiously starting to reopen. Canada's lockdown period started shortly before the US' (though we didn't close the border to the US until a week or two after stopping other international travel, which was a mistake that I blame mostly on Trump's inability to not take such a closure personally and Trudeau wanting to avoid stepping on his toes), and we're just barely starting to relax restrictions in some places now (mostly the provinces that have been at 0 cases for a couple weeks).

The US started later than almost everyone else, was less compliant with protocols and worse about testing than almost everyone else, and now is trying to reopen faster and less cautiously than almost everyone else, and you're wondering why your results aren't as good as anyone else's? The US response compares favourably to Brazil's, but that's about it, and Brazil's run by an insane militaristic dictator who seems to want his country to burn. That's not really good company to keep.

We might have shut down later, but we shut down longer than a lot of other places and harder than some major nations. And our re-opening has been tame compared to even liberal nations.

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