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But to your parent's point, the US outcome was comparable to other countries we'd consider peers, like the UK and France. I feel like this point, that other similar countries did poorly, is sometimes missed when talking about the US response.

The list puts the US at 1.8%. The minimum I’ve found is 0.2%. Most countries seem to hover around 1-2%. There are countries with 9+%. How did you come to your conclusion?

They're looking at the deaths per capita, not the case-fatality ratio.

You're looking at the case-fatality ratio, your parent is looking at the deaths per 100k population.

Looking at these two numbers suggests to me that while the US did very well at treating cases, we allowed far too many people to become infected.

I agree with your assessment.

Also Covid mortality scales exponentially with age, and US life expectancy is 5-6 years lower than say Spain or Italy.

Look at the full table, not the small chart on top.