Japan immediately classified COVID-19 as a national emergency, shutting schools and imposing restrictions on travel from China, South Korea and other countries, while urging people to remain home during weekends and teleworking.
Japan was quick to leverage its high-quality healthcare system, deploying robots to take care of patients and introducing a virus tracing app Cocoa.
And lastly, the healthy lifestyle of Japanese people ensured that the elderly followed a healthy diet with lesser vitamin D deficiency, hypothetically a major cause of COVID-19 infection.
America (under donald dump) refused to take action as long as possible. Some states failed to implement safety precautions (mass propaganda of vaccines and masks etc,)
Shitty healthcare system that lead to spreading more infections. Trump giving american ventilators to russia, musk doubled down on giving aid to us citizens and shorted everyone with shitty cheap equipment.
crappy american diet lead to many people dying from parasites (why ivermectin helped any) and deficiencies causing weak immune system