> Sure, if you cherry-pick a few countries (your list is basically the most impacted countries in Europe).

And yet we’re constantly compared against these countries and told they’re doing things “right” and the US is a disaster.

> If you include all European countries you get a different story.

You mean a bunch of Eastern European countries that basically aren’t doing any testing?

> And Europe has roughly double the population of the US, it's not surprising that it has more cases in absolute numbers.

EU 446M versus US 330M...

> You have to take into account that Europe is much more densely and uniformly populated than the United States, and had outbreaks start earlier than the US.

Now take into account that these countries have supposedly superior healthcare systems, a healthier population, and leaders not named Trump. I’d say that negates those factors.

> For example, here in Belgium every death at a nursing home is counted as a Corona casualty. Which increases the death by Corona massively in comparison with a country not doing that.

New York City recently reclassified 3K+ deaths as “likely” due to Covid, despite none of those people having been tested. And our CDC’s guidelines state that anyone who died WITH Covid is assumed to have died FROM Covid. I would say we’re definitely not being conservative with the reporting here...

I mean, put ALL European countries together and there’s way more deaths in total than the US, and I suspect the deaths/1M figure is very similar if not slightly higher than the US. Slice it however you want, the US is not doing that poorly relative to its peers in Europe.