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by dools 1943 days ago
Well ... in a sense, the UK is worst hit and were slow to act because of their right wing governments. In Australia our right wing federal government mishandled things but the states were the ones who kept it under control. The rest of continental Europe has been nowhere near as bad as the US, you guys are a total shit show right now
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France, Italy, and Spain are in the same ballpark as the US. The US is basically tied with Italy and Spain in deaths per capita. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...
Order that data by the final column (deaths in the last 7 days) descending. Spain and Italy were both hit relatively early, and many European countries are suffering second and third waves because of lockdown fatigue and libertarian propaganda on Facebook. But the US winter has been absolute mayhem and it was all driven by trump trying to get re elected by hook or by crook.