Watching some of the various news programs on SBS from other countries is interesting, particularly the non-western news programs that give us details of what the virus is like in all those other non-western countries that our media don't cover. Russia is being swamped with infections still increasing by large numbers, as are some South American countries and Afghanistan. I think Africa could still be a ticking timebomb, as the virus is taking a while to get into a lot of places since international travel has dried up, but it seems that it was international aid workers who have brought in the virus to places like Sudan, that don't have the resources to deal with this virus. On the other hand, countries like Nigeria that have been dealing with things like ebola, could see minimal cases of covid-19, as they have had a number of years of training their people to prevent the spread of infections.

If quite a few countries in Europe, the middle east and Australasia were able to take measures to result in them now being several weeks past their peak infections/deaths, it boggles the mind that a 1st-world country like America is still having 10,000 or more dying each week, with no sign of the rate slowing.
At least half of the US states are still only in the early stages of the virus hitting them, so America is yet to see the worst of this virus, and not just in terms of deaths, but to their economy. The hotspots in places like New York may have had the big number of deaths, but as the "foodbowl" and "manufacturing" states start getting hit by higher infection rates in the next few weeks, their whole country will suffer, as more processing businesses are forced to shut down by choice in states that are re-opened.
And the worse thing for people in those states is that if their state is officially re-opened, people won't be eligible for welfare payments if they refuse to work, even at a business that has had infected people (like over 20 meat processing plants that have become over-whelmed by infected people, having to close down, but being instructed by the president to go back to work). And it will be the lowest paid people who are in jobs most likely to be contaminated by the virus, as blue collar workers and service workers can't do their jobs from the safety of their homes.

I watched the film "Contagion" when it was on TV the other week, and it was from 2011, but it predicted a lot of things that the world is going through right now... and it also showed us how too much of the truth to the public will cause panic and chaos... particularly when there are conspiracy theorists getting in the ears of the less educated.

Just referring to something I had speculated for Australia 6 weeks ago (the virus infecting people in vital industries, causing them to shut down), which fortunately didn't end up happening here, but with central US states rushing to get people back to work, and some food factories already impacted, I think that a breakdown of food chains is more likely to occur over there now. It just makes no sense, for states to see how bad it can from the states that were first affected, to not take similar measures before the outbreak hits them.

With this virus being around for at least 9 months until a vaccine is available (at best), politicians would be foolish to guarantee that the grocery store supply chain (from farms, to wholesalers, to grocery warehouses, to transport, to supermarkets) won't be severed for weeks at a time, if just one person at a worksite or shift is infected. .... any worksite that has over 100 people (like a grocery warehouse), statistically, one of those people will be infected within the next two weeks, shutting down one of three shifts or the entire site for two weeks. Then over the next 9 months as more people get the infection, the site shuts down again, dozens of times until there is a vaccine to keep the place open.
This is certainly one time I'm glad I live here and not over there. I'm just going to miss travelling to other countries for toys and conventions for a while.