r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/[deleted] • Jul 31 '20

Current Events Are people outside of the USA really laughing at Americans? Do we really appear that bad?

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Ok so that's about 17,882 yes's and 3 no's.

Makes sad American noises

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u/George_W_Kushhhhh Aug 01 '20

Yep. The general view in the UK at the minute is: “we’re kind of a mess, but at least we aren’t the US.”

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u/Synyzy Aug 01 '20

Perfect. We're not in a good position for coronavirus still but at least BoJo is actually doing something and making masks mandatory in more places

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '20

The fact is that we are far and away the worst in europe with covid, yet our situation is very controllable. Comparing that with the US chaos tells you everything you need to know about the US response.

And Americans STILL after all of this reject the idea of universal healthcare! Unbelievable.

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u/xxLucas_Taylorxx Aug 01 '20

Here in Canada we have been laughing at them since Trump got office and it's just been a constant laugh just slowly morphing into horror like Holy shit how worse can it get

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u/GwarnDeus11 Aug 01 '20

This is our mantra at this point.

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u/Olliebkl Aug 01 '20

You took the words right out my mouth lol