today this journalist who is more politically middle uploaded this. judging from the video you might be right for rural america but not for cities. also its hard to tell about US culture cuz i feel like nordic and german culture is more colder and distant towards each other like living in own bubbles needed a good excuse before talking to a stranger....

what he fails to mention about the spain and UK example is that until early march spain encouraged mass protests and mass political rallies of thousands of attendants and UK attempted to do no lockdown just like sweden until they failed and hence went into lockdown.... also UK and spain are much more densely populated...

the same journalist does on his sister channel also very critical coverage about china, while ny times washington post and co run sponsored "china watch" articles written by china and generally are carefull in critizising china...