I have been saying for a while now to wait until this corona virus pandemic is over before judging how well or poorly anyone has done controlling it. People beat up on the US for its response, even though the initial estimate was 70% infected and as many as 2 million people dead. We are just over 10% of that. We are never going to reach 2 million.
But getting back to my point about waiting until it is over, yesterday France reported over 20,000 new infections. France's population is 20% of the US population so 20k new infections to them is like 100k new infections in the US. The highest daily new infection total in the US was 78,000. And in the US we have tested about twice the percentage of residents that France has. The fact is, France, the UK and Spain are all experiencing a second wave. In France this new wave is more than double the magnitude of their first wave. The 2nd wave in the UK is worse too. This is despite everything we know today that we did no know in March and April, despite masks and social distancing. This is how a virus operates. We have no idea how long this new wave will last in Europe or how far it will spread but this second wave appears to have started in early August so it has been building for 2 months and we do not know if it has peaked yet.
Wait until mid-2021 then look at how the world did fighting coronoa virus and I believe the picture will appear very different than it does today.