Just read an article in Vox about Germany. About the time Fauci was telling us to not wear masks, they were telling people to put on masks.
Fauci should have been fired a long time ago.
The next theme is that they listened to the scientists. We listened to the scientists as well, and our scientists and Surgeon General told us for 3 weeks to not wear masks at a critical time . . . just a few weeks after Fauci told us in multiple interviews we had nothing to worry about, backed by headlines such as "You'll have a better chance of getting (insert something here) then you will getting Covid-19" (which is kind of true).
Several of their chief epidemiologists also admitted that they've been very lucky. One possible Patient Zero (or near Zero) came forward and said he had what felt like a cold, but there was a person from China visiting their factory. Had that person not come forward very quickly, things could have been very different in Germany.