> Also what world do you live in where the EU is doing better then most of the world? Half the EU countries are in the top 20 deaths / pop. ...because the EU w

> Also what world do you live in where the EU is doing better then most of the world? Half the EU countries are in the top 20 deaths / pop. ...because the EU was the center of the first wave, at a point where the whole world was scrambling to find and implement appropriate mitigations. Try this chart: https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=eur&areas=ind&areas=chn&areasRegional=usny&areasRegional=usca&areasRegional=usfl&areasRegional=ustx&byDate=0&cumulative=0&logScale=0&perMillion=1&values=deaths https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=eur&are... In any case, the post you're replying to claimed that "we are dealing with the economic challenge[s] posed by COVID better than most of the rest of the world." I'm not sure why the death numbers, even if they were not confounded like this, would be a meaningful measure for that.