"On a country left completely unchecked?" not unchecked. There were a lot of closures and measures taken. Just not the same as elsewhere. That would be almost

"On a country left completely unchecked?" not unchecked. There were a lot of closures and measures taken. Just not the same as elsewhere. That would be almost 200 000 were it to be in America, and that's quite a lot of people to die in 3 or so months. More than Vietnam+Korean wars put together and those wars lasted years. So it's not a small number.