I feel like people aren't really parsing my words critically.

I specifically did not say that the US was worse off than MOST countries. I said MANY countries.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2020/06/08/the-glo...

There are almost 200 countries. Many of them are quite poor compared to the "developed" world and prior to the pandemic had severe social and even humanitarian deficits. The pandemic has been devastating there also. But they were starting from a more challenged point.