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> You don't feel how he handled the Covid pandemic was a bad policy?

It wasn't good, but it wasn't an outlier compared to the west.

In the last week there have been 16 deaths per million from covid in the USA, down below places like the Netherlands, Portugal, UK, Italy, France, Spain, Poland, Argentina, Belgium etc.

Overall the US has performed as well as the UK, slightly better than Italy Sweden and France, not as bad as Spain and Belgium.



> > You don't feel how he handled the Covid pandemic was a bad policy?

> It wasn't good, but it wasn't an outlier compared to the west.

Only if you don't adjust for density. The US in general (and even most large US cities) are very low density in comparison to Europe, which could/would/should have helped a lot (turns out, poor public transportation infrastructure + suburban tracts of McMansions + high dependency on cars is good for something after all). Instead, that was all negated by idiotic super spreader events and the like.




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