Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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LurkerJ said:
COVID situation is terrible in many European countries, population adjusted, they're pretty similar actually to the US.

Not sure why the states are being mocked when many countries in the west aren't doing much better?

It's less mocking the US and more Trumps reaction to Covid and the ludicrous things he's saying and spreading about it.

As for the number of cases, Europe got it's cases down to low numbers after their first peak while the US always stayed high, which is one of the main reason as to why Trump's response was getting mocked so much. The 7-day moving average hasn't dropped below 35k cases a day since June when Europe as a whole got less than 5K a day, and less than 2K without Russia. The US are at the beginning of another peak while Europe is starting to peak or even past it in some countries, so it's quite possible that in a couple weeks the US will look worse than Europe again, just like it was in March