There is no COVID in USA.
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2025
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Wow, didn't think that would be coming back...
Better quickly defund the CDC to get better numbers
Remember, if you stop counting cases it just goes away!
No no, just revise the reports.
just grab a sharpie and scribble on a map like any stable genius would do.
Porqé not los dos ?
I find this so weird, here in Europe, and notably in the Netherlands, Covid levels are very low and not rising at all. We all live fairly normal lives nowadays.
Why is USA such a different case? Is it a lack of vaccinations?
Vaccination rates would be my first guess as well. Individually vaccines reduce the severity of symptoms, which makes it less likely for people to notice and report that they have COVID. The vaccine also reduces the viral load spread by individuals, therefore making it less likely for them to spread the virus, and it also makes it less likely for you to become sick if you come into contact with the virus.
Considering the difference in population density between the USA and The Netherlands (NL is way denser) I'd say this is a good demonstration of how vaccines are miracles of modern science.
Healthy people under 65 in the US are not allowed any more Covid boosters until an updated version comes out and most people who were keeping up with it have now run out of protection.
To be fair, that's still significantly more than Germany.
In Germany you get exactly two boosters until you are 60 if you are not at risk. Unless you pay for yourself of course.
Fair, but in the US you can’t even pay yourself now. You just aren’t allowed. RFK decided for us that the risk of vaccination outweighs the risk of COVID.
Fair, that sucks.
Though US-Americans should be somewhat used to paying for medical services. Over here it is definitely not common to pay for vaccines. I don't even know how much paying for a COVID booster is and haven't found anything since no one is wondering this.
As a comparison, the HPV vaccines are 480€ if you are 18 or older (which, again, hardly anyone pays/is able to easily afford). I wouldn't be surprised if a COVID booster was like 50€.
This is what I initially thought but my friend said I could still, say, pay out of pocket. I'm hearing conflicting statements.
This is what I was told at Kaiser, then I went to a private pharmacy to double check. They aren’t allowed to give it, regardless of insurance or out of pocket.
If you lie and say you have an organ transplant or some equally serious immunological condition you can get it, and they aren’t allowed to ask for proof.
You will have to pay out of pocket though, and it will be awkward explaining why you don’t have insurance while having a bankrupting condition.
I believe you. Do you know if this applies to all states? If worse comes to worse I'm willing to travel to get my vaccine.
I was told by both that it’s a CDC issue, not a company or state issue. Besides leaving the US, lying is the way to get it.
Wow that's so weird. In France you can get a free booster every 6 months, whatever your age.
Flu vaccine is not free below 60 though. (It's 30 euros I think, something like that).
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Just a guess, but USA has limited paid sick leave days or something right? Maybe that also has an impact? People just start going to work sick after a while, infecting even more people.
Lol no. You're thinking of functional democracies like we have them in Europe
The US, if Covid were to return today, would become world's biggest leper colony within a month.
The US has 0 federally mandated sick leave days. Very few people care about covid anymore. I have always attributed the summer surge to the significant increase in travel when school's not in session.
I think Republicans spit into each other's mouths to intentionally spread COVID to own the libs or something.
Ding ding ding
That, and the CDC having been wrecked and RFK dismantling the vaccination board, and RFK cancelling 500 million in vaccine research and... and .... and.....
Why would this matter? I mean, it isnt a good thing, but cancelling vaccine research wouldnt have an impact on vaccination levels after a week.
It matters because it's just another step in a long trip of many steps where the eventual goal is... I have no idea, get us all sick and dying again from preventable illnesses?
It matters because vaccines require research and this WILL have yet another negative impact on the world, people will eventually die from decisions like these
If today another Covid were to break out, the US would become a leper colony
I meant "why would it produce the differential result of more covid cases at this particular moment in time?"
Here in Finland nobody even talks about covid anymore. It's just another season flu, basically
It’s the combination of a lack of vaccinations along with a horrendously bad healthcare system.
More along the lines of a lack of education.
I mean people do get covid, I have it myself now (fellow Dutchie here). I wouldn't have bothered testing if a friend of mine weren't super sensitive to covid. It's really just like a cold.
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My guess is the same reason Europe has more deaths during heat waves: air conditioning. Increasing indoor air circulation, either with heating or a/c, spreads the virus around more. The US tends to use a/c in the summer, and Europe tends not to. [Yes, acknowledging both regions are massive, with lots of regional variation.]
“If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”
Time to cancel mRNA vaccine research!
There will be mRNA research, just not in the US. Witch doctors are back in fashion.
Maybe I’ll finally get to live my dream of being an old timey doctor (by just telling people I’m a doctor) and then just doing a bunch of drugs together to get the ghosts out of their blood until they die and I can clear out all of their valuables.
Just hoping for some silver linings.
You just described health insurance companies
I hope all these MAGAts die
Are the booster shots still getting updated? I’ll be getting it along with my annual flu shot probably next month.
Kennedy's CDC took them away from younger healthy people, so insurance isn't covering them. Not sure if you could get one by paying cash.
(Boy, he's really pushing the family name into the shitter, isn't he?)
Doing lord nurgles work.
Given the whole roadkill-eating thing, I think it's closer to Namira from The Elder Scrolls
It's always been in the shitter if you've been paying attention.
In the 70s and 80s things were very much not in the shitter... You just had that nuclear war thing hanging over your head when you stopped to think about it.
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Fire the guy who did these statistics!
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