Absolutely, you are correct. But that's not the point I want to make. What I was trying to get at is, why does it make sense to say "Well, why doesn't the Uni

Absolutely, you are correct. But that's not the point I want to make. What I was trying to get at is, why does it make sense to say "Well, why doesn't the United States just implement the policies of insert name of European country here? Well, because the federal government, for the most part, isn't calling the shots on what individual states decide to do about the pandemic. It's up to the governors and individual state governments to decide their own course of action, for their area. In many states, the outbreak is very manageable and under control. In others, usually in states with the largest cities, the situation is much more serious. We are not all like New York City. It it much more complicated than just lumping all the US numbers into one. I'm saying, it doesn't make sense just to look at the total US numbers, and say we are fucking up. Take the 3 most populous states in the US for example. California, Texas and Florida combined have nearly 90.5 million people. Together they account for nearly 203,000 cases total according to the CDC. Comparatively, the United Kingdom has something like 65 million people, and a rough total of 261,000 cases according to the ECDC. Spain and Italy both individually have more than our top 3 states by population. Russia's rate per capita is higher. Don't let Donald Trump and the huge numbers out of New York City/ New Jersey fool you. Most areas of the country have the pandemic under control, and very importantly, hospitals are not at risk of being overrun. Weather that remains to be the case as we loosen restrictions going forward will be interesting to monitor though.