1. Age, health, immune system health, perhaps exposure to previous viruses, population density, Vitamin D could all be previous factors.
Low or mild flu seasons the last few years in your elderly population...
When they first had an outbreak in their elderly before they responded...
How open they were to travel from China and then other infected areas...
Are all likely contributors to Covid outcomes.
Which is why comparing country to country is not really useful for small differences, especially during their first round of Covid outbreak.
Moron Standards which most countries and lefties follow.
2. Infections and not distinguish high risk and low risk.
By that standard... if your country has seen a new high in infections... your countries virus response this second time should not be lauded by those who think a govt job is to stop infections.
Smart standards... the only logical ones.
I believe the govts job is to prevent deaths.
And since it is the high risk who due pretty close to 100 percent of the dying...
The govt's job should be tailored to preventing infections and deaths in the high risk.
By that standard... if your countries deaths are currently climbing or reaching new highs your Covid response was dangerous inept ... and it has failed.
Explanation...
We had one simple and obvious objective... protect the high risk from getting sick and dying.
They should have been told to isolate.
And we should have helped them isolate.
If a govt did not preach that message early and often...
Then they have done nothing truly useful for sure.
And they may have been preaching madness which contributes to the death
toll.
For instance... the implicit message that masking protects people allowed some if not most high risk people to think it was safe to go out or allow family members to interact with them if they wore masks outside.
Do you have any idea of how low those numbers are?, for countries so unbelievably, densely populated.
No, I know you don't know. Why do I bother!? I'm an idiot.