In every country I've been to I've seen the same levels of stupid. It's comforting to know that people aren't so different from each other. But I think that wh

In every country I've been to I've seen the same levels of stupid. It's comforting to know that people aren't so different from each other. But I think that what you are attributing to stupidity would be better attributed to culture, size, or strength of authority -- the countries that have handled the pandemic well score favorably in one of those attributes. Here in the 'states we are strongly individualistic and historically distrustful of government, and bad actors have been stoking those flames for a while so we are in a particuarly vulnerable state right now. Now, in my opinion, stupidity is humanity's seeming refusal to not act more switfly about climate change, but I'm sure someone else would argue that's attributable to some other, er, attribute