I was born in Soviet Union, I grew as it was collapsing, when I left Russia, it already was through two devastating crises. US had no serious calamity since Ci

I was born in Soviet Union, I grew as it was collapsing, when I left Russia, it already was through two devastating crises. US had no serious calamity since Civil War. All wars since then were not on the main territory, 9/11 is actually relatively minor. As such nation is not prepared to deal with any serious problem. On top of that economy and business are hyper-optimized, and thus extremely fragile. For many other countries this pandemic is not a huge deal, not because it’s not terrible, but because they recently have seen worse. They will take their losses and move on. US eventually will do the same, but will learn the lesson the hard way.