Originally Posted by
NotMrNiceGuy
Europe is definitely first world and is really nice. But nowadays, Americans tend to forget why their ancestors came here. Until you actually experience it, I think that European mystique is more hype than substance. It’s just annoying to hear over and over how incredible Europe is by those that just repeat talking points and have never spent any meaningful time there.
The 10x was a hyperbole, sarcasm at best. I still stand by the fact that western Europe, the EU is more developed than the US simply in terms of the basics, such as healthcare, public education, transportation infrastructure, quality of life, minimum wage and overall happiness levels of the average middle class.
Maybe this does not apply to a pilot group that in average makes $200k/year and has greater flexibility on how to live their life but it certainly applies to the average over there person. The avg European citizen is far more educated on world issues as a whole and has the ability to see the bigger picture.
Europe was able to flatten the curve, we weren’t, plain and simple. That displays a far more developed and educated culture that chose to listen to science and medicine over some crazy conspiracy theory that also politicized it as a hoax.
There is a reason why the US is literally the only “developed” country on the Top 5 of most covid infected countries and it has everything to do with how we as a nation decided to respond to the crisis.