COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

gboudx said
Sorry to see the American idiocy has oozed northward.

Sounds more like "human nature" to me. If the narrative has been "We've got it handled, COVID is an American problem" ... pretty sure, people will start believing it and making decisions based on that belief.