> Anecdotes are meaningless, yours included Agreed, which is why I specifically point out to look at statistical facts and not individual stories. > You're do

> Anecdotes are meaningless, yours included Agreed, which is why I specifically point out to look at statistical facts and not individual stories. > You're doing exactly what you're criticizing No, because I specifically point out to look at the actual numbers rather than individual stories ;) > Is it a coincidence that the only first world country that failed at containing the epidemic tells everyone that "it's not that bad", "not so many people will die", "there are no side effects", it's a disgrace. Not sure which country you are talking about. I live in the UK and think there's many things we could have done better and many things where we overreacted. I don't think any country has contained the virus, as the virus cannot be contained. We see small outbreaks everywhere, so it's difficult to claim that anyone has contained it. For every country which has done X you'll find another country which hasn't done X and their curves still look incredibly similar. Take Sweden as an example. We haven't heard any news on Sweden for a while, which can only mean that they must be doing well now and looking at their curves they did flatten indeed and their death counts are drastically going down. So I think anyone who is smart enough not wanting to embarrass themselves will know to hold back with any premature clever comparisons until a couple years down the line.