lol, is your argument really, "look at italy! see the US didn't handle things so bad!"

sure, italy was the worlds leader when this shit was first breaking and the only other country with significant number of cases was china but that means italy was the leader for like 4 weeks in jan/feb. italy immidiately locked their entire fucking country down for like 2 months. there were literal months of twitter being full of videos of italians on their balconies singing, italians lowering dogs from balconies with rope, italian cities with shitloads of wildlife returning, and a ton more. there was literally a two month period where italian twitter was going viral almost every day with something because of how strange the entire was with something like 95% of business shut the fuck down. the country shut down so quickly and so completely that it had a measurable impact on air quality over like half a continent and was making the news in fucking egypt.

italy is like the worst possible example to compare us to. italian covid death stats are literal proof that america didn't get it's shit together. i literally said that other countries stopped their first waves, which is exactly what happened in italy

you'll notice the graph from america is very, very different.

i stand by what i said: this shit is incredibly simple, and i'm not buying anyone (like you) who is claiming they don't understand it