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by tick_tock_tick 2102 days ago
I don't understand how you can look at the world and honestly think the US is closer to collapse then the EU. Also what world do you live in where the EU is doing better then most of the world? Half the EU countries are in the top 20 deaths / pop.
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> Also what world do you live in where the EU is doing better then most of the world? Half the EU countries are in the top 20 deaths / pop.

...because the EU was the center of the first wave, at a point where the whole world was scrambling to find and implement appropriate mitigations.

Try this chart: https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=eur&are...

In any case, the post you're replying to claimed that "we are dealing with the economic challenge[s] posed by COVID better than most of the rest of the world."

I'm not sure why the death numbers, even if they were not confounded like this, would be a meaningful measure for that.