Believing in experts

[Millhouse]

In regards to Covid, next time a world pandemic hits similar to it, I think the U.S. should try it's very best to copy what the Japanese did and/or doing. Numbers don't lie, so why were the Japanese far superior than the 'West' when it comes to dealing with Covid? 

Now I'm no scientist myself, but how can anyone think that the U.S. did too much  and instead should have left it up to the personal freedom of everyone to do whatever they wanted as if Covid didn't exist?

I guess I will always fall on the side of trying to save as many lives as possible even if some "personal freedoms" are inhibited for a short while. Then again I will always have a different personal perspective on this than a vast majority of people could ever relate too (which is a good thing!).

Japan : 
Population roughly 125 million  -   total of 33 million plus cases - 392 million plus vaccines given - 74,694 total deaths thru last month

U.S. :
Population roughly 331 million  -   total of 103 million plus cases - 668 million plus vaccines given - 1,127,152 total deaths thru last month

https://covid19.who.int/region/amro/country/us
https://covid19.who.int/region/wpro/country/jp