> Americans have suffered far more during the pandemic than any other country That in particular in the opening is enough — a perfect match for the stereotypic

> Americans have suffered far more during the pandemic than any other country That in particular in the opening is enough — a perfect match for the stereotypically ignorant parochial American. The US is among the worst off by some reasonable criteria like deaths per capita, but is in a cluster with other nations and not above. So to claim as if self-evident that it “suffered far more … than any other country” is just nonsense.