I think your comment really proves my point. Even when there's overwhelming evidence of how bad it really was, there's always someone who will downplay it or even deny it.
Did people downplay the severity in Ecuador, or did the piles of bodies make people take it seriously? Where I'm from (Northern Europe) the bodies were definitely not piling up. It's even hard to show that any excess mortality over the period. If the people of Ecuador didn't take covid serious after that horrible situation, I guess I can forget about westerns rallying against a more deadly pandemic.
