[downerending]

To clarify, I'm talking about the death curves--these seem to be the most credible statistics. Looking at those, most of the curves do not look significantly different. The exceptions are (perhaps) China, South Korea, and Japan.

China's credibility on mass death statistics is a bit shaky, and Japan has had a serious moral hazard given their 2020 Olympic hosting (and there has been a sudden blip in Tokyo in the last day or two).

Looking at the curves, though, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that that of the USA, however bad, is not obviously different than those of most countries currently undergoing the epidemic.

Perhaps some think the US should be significantly better than most countries. I'm not really a believer in exceptionalism myself.