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Our death rate per capita is substantially lower than China and Italy for example.

Y'all need to understand what an exponential function looks like.

Y’all need to not compare absolute case numbers on an exponential curve between countries with vastly different populations.

I find it odd that people are comparing "worst" by number of cases and not accounting population. The US has 320mn people while Italy has 60.5, Spain has 46.8, and Germany has 83.8. These are the countries with the most cases and by population the US is doing the best out of all of them and Spain the worst. If we look at deaths, Germany is only slightly better than the US but Spain and Italy are each much higher.

The US sure has a lot of problems, but that doesn't mean everything we do is the worst.

The US spread is a few weeks behind the other countries. People are projecting based on incubation time and mitigation response what will happen. The US growth rate is on track to make everyone else look peachy keen.

I doubt there is any definitively proven date of the start of the spread. It very well could have started sooner than claims.

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