Among those Western countries from your chart, only the US and Brazil are still recording 1k new cases daily. Everyone else is largely done with the pandemic phase, and is working on reopening, whereas the US is only maybe halfway through this ordeal.

If we're just doing per-capita snapshots, the US is doing 8x worse than India and 20x worse than China. Both countries that are far poorer and more densely populated.

By literally any measure, it's been an indefensible performance. Total shitshow.