You see the above map/chart?
Notice #1 and #2 on this rankings. The president of #1 just a week ago said that the scare of the pandemic was just a hoax; presumably because he wanted to keep his precious fake speculative finance markets from collapsing. Then they collapsed anyway. Then this country produced testing kits that didn't work. Then it was revealed that the president's son has a conflict of interest re: testing kits. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/jared-kushner-once-controlled-oscar-now-running-a-coronavirus-testing-site/
At the current juncture, this #1 country is on the same trajectory as Italy. And seemingly zero political will to actually combat the pandemic (let alone the infrastructure).
In country #1, the Utah Jazz basketball team used up 20 percent of the entire testing kits in the state of Oklahoma. Famous/rich people with no symptoms are getting tested, while everyone else has zero chance.
The prime minister of the #2 ranked country suggested herd immunity as a solution. Aside from guaranteeing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, it was completely comical anyway, as being infected with COVID-19 does not make one immune from catching it again. As of now, their trains are still full, because while the government can call on people to stop going to work, without guaranteeing either their income or some kind of deferment of bill payments, people have no other choice.
Both these countries have comically mismanaged this situation, and the coming weeks will tragically reflect that.
FYI, the 193rd ranked country in this list, had zero COVID-19 cases because they immediately closed their borders following the outbreak in Wuhan.
Now, why is this important? Think back to the freedom of speech index, or the economic freedom index, or the happiness index, or any other of these indexes which are plastered all over these "respected" publications. Think about who is at the bottom of these rankings and who is at the top.
These indexes are, and never were, scientific or academic. They are purely purely propagandistic. The mask is coming off. This is just a small sample of that.