[Ambolia]

Well, that sounds a bit extreme.

I just see generalized policies of degrowth and basically destruction of the middle-class (whatever that means) everywhere in the western world:

- Local lockdowns rather than closing borders in time for the virus

- Increased tolerance of petty crime to make the cities as inhabitable as possible

- Very incompetent energy policies that will make energy skyrocket in price

- Policies and incentives making it harder and harder to be able to afford a car.

- Deindustrialization (that's been going on for a while) and no effort to reverse it.

- Basically no research or very bad research on basic health improvement treatments that don't involve medication.

And small things like that adding up one by one. Would be not so strange if different countries were failing in different ways, but seems strange to see so many countries consistently "failing" in the same way.