"game of numbers" was always a thing in Europe (as a whole) as you know naturally
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... that's why we are specific to Americans but also uncomparable due to them being "young" country. As you know, it goes back to antiquity, numbers, crimes, competition among states and national comparation... nothing new there, so no need to waste words just as intro/prologue..... when it comes to east Asia it's more cultural/behavior thing (like Japan i mentioned few times) but also nothing new for me to discover.
so, to get back to numbers and why are they suspicious (for what's matter, personally not that much to me) in some places - it's not so much competition in corona case, more about "image" i.e. Greece depends very much on tourism hence "must be safe" (in long term not saying that they need money now), Bulgaria has "image" problems so it must be safe nominally and so on, as i said not crucial... I compared our numbers with ones from Denmark and taken them as more likely-similar in number of cases, without bias
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Unimportant - unless some have mutated virus with much greater death rate
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...i often use Greece as good "punch bag" but that is only due to some sources from middle ages and we teasing each other (when even some papal Italians were more fair and helpful)) but generally we are pals and again, my examples not important globally for this case ;
regardless of this case i like to look at numbers and - using own logic, which could be true or not - try to notice something "irregular" there, but strangely enough was never "maths guy" nor so much into science of this kind, liking history or social ones more. as i mentioned it already i'm not impressed with state of that comparation ability, as i generally rate today youth more technically and socially able but generally less "deep" in some things... corona no corona, closed schools, less reading, generally not some thing