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...cus like I hear that and, well, you see the cover image. 
Is it just that so much more of the world is underdeveloped (overexploited) and it's just raw statistics? I guess I could see that explanation. But. Also. I've been to Pheonix.
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Lol. That 2019 chart aged like milk
we were prepared and chose not to
no we weren't. All our public health institutions were hollowed out and the US was completely paralyzed and incapable of responding, even if there were the political will. We didn't have masks, couldn't produce them and have no mechanisms or apparatuses for tracing and quarantining at scale - or mass distribution of food and supplies to those in lockdown.
America would have been one of the worst festering covid-ridden shitholes on earth even if our culture and politics handled it perfectly. The damage had already been done, the copper ripped from the walls, the hospitals privatized, trust in the government gone, the production offshored, the state apparatuses defunded.
The chart was completely wrong, and it listed DPRK and Cuba as the least prepared on Earth. China near the bottom as well. The opposite turned out to be the case. This chart was just straight up huffing white supremacy.
DPRK is a hermit kingdom and also incapable of quarantining their entire country like a hermit kingdom.
They are so authoritarian that everyone has to obey commands or be launched from an anti-aircraft cannon, no way they could maintain a lockdown
They are so unproductive they spend all their time playing Potemkin Village in Pyongyang to fool 5 western tourists, no way they could pause economic activity for a lockdown
I like reminding people about the AIDS epidemic whenever COVID comes up. Two points make a line, and the trajectory looks abysmal.
American (and Western) exceptionalism at work