Because the US response was terrible, and not something to be emulated.Then why did most countries not do what the US did?
That's highly arguable-- Sweden had a notably low mortality rate at times, but also some quite sizeable failures, particularly in the first wave.Why did Sweden do the best in all of Europe with no basically no covid restrictions, no mask mandates.
Sweden was quite well placed to respond to the pandemic owing to a pre-existing strong healthcare sector, a lower population than a lot of its peers, helpful geography, and high community compliance. Scandinavian countries in general share these features, and several of the others did better, at least at the start.
You have been given evidence over and over and over and over again. Each time you've found a single minor limitation (of the kind every study has), or just simply misread the paper or misrepresented the conclusions, and then dismissed it in its entirety. Then a few pages later gone back to claiming "ZERO EVIDENCE HAS EVER BEEN GIVEN", with a straight face as if anybody is taking that seriously.You have no idea what scientific consensus is. Scientific consensus on masks and lockdowns before covid was that they didn't work and there's been no evidence showing they have worked so how'd scientific consensus change on those things without any evidence?
Provide the proof and I'll shut-up about it. Nobody has provided the proof because it doesn't exist.