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.

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

As someone "over there", it isn't just vaccinations. The increasingly (and now fully) fascist government and corpocratic economic structure have given rise to what I perceive to be significantly higher rates of Social Darwinist and other "fuck you, I got mine" attitudes, especially among men but also in general. This, combined with a total dereliction of duty on the part of regulators (see: Fascist Corpocracy) and the fact that people are facing both economic and direct verbal pressure from their bosses to come in when they are sick (again, see: Fascist Corpocracy), and finally with the coup de grace of people being whiny-ass imbeciles who "can't stand" having a mask on, has led to a completely uncontrollable spiral towards what I can only conclude will be the breeding ground of another pandemic (because, as this news proves, THIS ONE AIN'T OVER YET, despite what seemingly everyone wants to pretend). I wear a P100 half-face respirator everywhere I go, including 9 hours a day as a high school teacher. I've had COVID 6 times. The only reason I'm still alive is because I've gotten the vaccine re-upped at every possible opportunity.

The wastewater testing is a great point, I didnt think they'd still be measuring that