You added this entire paragraph upthread after I had replied more than once: “You mentioned Covid. Watching the arc of excuses made by citizens of the US has b

You added this entire paragraph upthread after I had replied more than once: “You mentioned Covid. Watching the arc of excuses made by citizens of the US has been a black comedy: it started with excuses about how China managed to control Covid, it moved on to different excuses when some other Asian countries managed low death counts, then the excuses changed again once some first world countries got their shit together. The underlying premise was “USA #1” therefore if another country is doing better then let’s pipe up with a irrelevant excuse meme. The pattern is tragically hilarious.” As well as lying about not having edited your comments, this comment is contemptuously anti-American and unconstructive. You can always find citizens of a country saying stupid things. It’s also a non sequitur to what I was commenting on. Covid numbers across Europe as a whole have been comparable to those across the US as a whole. The two blocs are of comparable size, so this is an interesting statistic when evaluating effectiveness of governance of a large bloc.