One thing we’ll see play out more and more: When Official Enemy countries have high death counts it’s due to moral failings inherent in their cultures or systems—“authoritarianism”, “corruption”. When the US has a high death count it’s just “missteps” and “lost opportunities”
The Ever Stumbling Empire comes home!
Read the initial NYT text, it’s straight out of Fox News; the highlighted section has since been deleted after hours of social media mockery but, again note the non sequitur ideological recommitment to US superiority even in a story about the US surpassing everyone in covid cases 
