Protip: Numerical studies comparing covid-19 responses between countries will need to account for average population density, international/intra-country "mixing", and some sort of developmental index (please don't make me attempt to define that). And other hard-to-quantify cultural factors, of course.
My suspicious is that, eventually, populist leaderships around the globe will be implemented in similar derelictions of duty.
Also, more related to the article; maybe mainstream social media combined with "state" media is killing us? idk