What factors have made Germany relatively successful in managing the coronavirus crisis?

Good governance; high skills; solid public finances; regional strengths; social solidarity — and a new-found characteristic, compassion. The Germans have shown the world how these attributes help deal with the crises they have faced, of which Covid-19 is only the latest.

The measure of a country — or an institution or individual for that matter — is not the difficulties it faces, but how it surmounts them. On that test, contemporary Germany is a country to be envied. It has developed a maturity that few others can match.

While I'm suspicious of broad generalizations about national character, it's worth studying nations provably successful in coping with COVID-19 without resort to authoritarian tactics.

I'm in Michigan, where a Merkel-like state governor is battling loons and corrupt incompetents fostered on the U.S. right-wing. (For a telling example, Republicans have stalled all attempts to ban guns, even assault rifles, from the state legislature building...)

We're just barely keeping case counts steady, with ongoing high mortality in majority-Black and poor communities.

I'd love to hear from anyone whose regional or national government seems to have been doing things right. Also, comments from any Germany residents on their public perception of government competence, regionalism, and systemic strengths/flaws in the COVID-19 response.