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It's not hurting the whole world equally. It's been far worse for countries peopled with and led by idiots, like the USA. As long as this goes on it benefits China very greatly. We've already seen a huge shift away from the idea of American global leadership.
What an unbelievably low effort comment. >It's been far worse for countries peopled with and led by idiots, like the USA. Ranked next to Western European countries, the US ranks at the bottom of worst effected. The worst effected country is Belgium, followed by France, Italy, the UK, Sweden, and so on. As far as CFR, the US is about 1/3 or Belgium, and about 1/2 of the Netherlands. Among western liberal democracies,…
The aspect of the pandemic which impacts the USA most greatly is not the number of dead bodies, it is the loss of the perception of the USA as a global leader. Nobody thinks that Italy was key to handling the Ebola outbreak, so they did not lose their reputation over this. In fact everybody knows that Italy is a basket case led by craven criminals. But the USA was until recently viewed as the nation that could coordinate global action against pandemics. Now, everyone sees China as that nation. China is exporting masks and test kits and whatnot. USA is importing them. Officials with the German Marshall Fund, essentially a US propaganda outlet leftover from the Cold War, are going on the record discussing America's abdication of leadership.