To add to this, using that website's data you can see a point worth noting. Roughly 10-15 percent of their people are more vaccinated (relative to population) than the US and have been for a lot longer. They've vaccinated earlier and perhaps better than almost any country with a much much much higher total amount of people to take to do so. They've maintained the attempt to defeat covid entirely for a lot longer with a lot less help than most other countries as well.

Whatever the rest of the equation is, it is incredibly hard for anyone in good faith to fault their efforts or results so far. Here's hoping they're able to use a lot of the systems and structures they put in place to deal with the spread and vaccination much better than any of us did to also deal with the outbreaks and illness once they open up and it becomes normalized, much like we completely fucked the ball (I think that's the phrase) on and unfortunately normalized for the world.

Here's hoping they keep those systems and structures in place in case this incredibly shitty gamble of it "becoming like the flu" continues to not pan out so hot and we start listening to actual scientists, instead of talking heads, again.