> That's highly dependent on a bunch of stuff that you can not choose at birth. Meaning, which country you are born in? Yes, of course; that's why I specified

> That's highly dependent on a bunch of stuff that you can not choose at birth. Meaning, which country you are born in? Yes, of course; that's why I specified which country I was talking about. My original comment about the poor track record humans have of actually advancing "the greater good" when they think that's what they are doing was meant to be general, however. > If we actually had trusted the experts things would likely look a lot better. Which experts are these? From what I can see, with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight, two actions that the world could have taken to drastically reduce the impact of COVID, much more than anything anyone actually did, are: (1) Stop all international travel, sometime around late January or early February 2020. (2) Make the vaccines that were discovered in January 2020 available, at least to high risk people (e.g., the elderly, health care workers) in high risk areas, sometime in February or March 2020. I'm not aware of any "expert" that ever recommended either of those things. Indeed, experts were vociferously recommending against #1.