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No, better: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

Up to 90% of the positive cases in the US would not be positive in Germany due to how PCR tests are performed in each country, and what countries code as coronavirus deaths also differs. Making comparisons between countries is hard. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testin...

The US has the 10th worst mortality per capita in the world (excluding microstates), so they're doing better than that at least.

This article is a bit misleading. He didn't just have a boring job, they wanted to fire him but because of the labor law in France they couldn't easily do this, so they gave him nothing to do as a form of harassment to try to get him to quit (more details here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/02/frenchman-take... - he was "mise au placard"). This is similar to what got France Télécom in trouble for.