What gets me is the masses of people that are rallying behind the "stay home forever" notion. These people are normally someone who is fortunate enough to have work that is easy to do remotely. What i don't think these people are considering is that although their job can be done that way, the company that they work for almost certainly produces a product that has to be physically built and distributed by actual working people..... and if that dries up, their job will be kaput as well. They'll be singing a different tune when that time comes.

As to the medical preparedness, i think a lot of it is based on the existence of medical facilities and probably overall affluence of the country in question. Seeing USA at the top seems like a mistake considering the death toll in the country but then again, just because you have the correct mechanisms in place, doesn't mean you know how to use them effectively.

Then we have to introduce the misinformation and the apparent desire to label every death as a Covid death for some sort of perhaps, politically motivated reason.