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Yep. You can see it abroad, too. Like it's hard to blame Italy for how badly things went at first. It got nailed first in Europe, and had to figure things out on the fly. Of course things were going to go badly for them. But by the time significant numbers of cases were showing up in Northern Europe, a lot more was known about COVID, giving them the tools to protect themselves. Some used those tools wisely, like Norway and Finland, and did really well. Others used it as an opportunity for political posturing and doomed their people to high excess rates of death, like Sweden.
The good news of all this is we have reams of data from a plethora of techniques used to combat this.
The bad news is, in this country at least, politics trump's data.