No, I’d be quite critical of countries were they didn’t do the right things as well. I’d be critical of quality control and other aspects in Third World nations where they’ve screwed up… So it’s essentially analyzing things from a simple quality control perspective, the same I would do in any kind of business, and considering 18,000 Japanese Covid deaths in a population 38% of the United States standing at 710,000 deaths, in the hospitalization rates etc., I would say the results quite speak for themselves. The USA is number one, unparalleled, in a great many things but it is not number one in everything… Do you differ?
Please defend your contention that the United States has a better record on mitigating Covid (under Trump/Biden) than Japan under its own conservative government, has from a statistical, analytical, and empirical perspective sans any emotions.
The problem you have is that you believe in the US government’s official numbers. Prove that those are real.
For example, I’ve watched the unemployment numbers shenanigans for decades. The definition has changed multiple times and the measurements are indirect. So i don’t believe them. Why should I believe covid numbers? Belief in those is the core of your argument. If those numbers can’t be believed, comparisons of numbers can’t be believed. Two different governments collect data differently.
We also have 50 states contributing data, collecting and reporting differently. We can go down even furtger to counties, hospitals, etc. The two country level data sets cannot be compared meaningfully in any way.