Originally Posted by Excargodog

Perhaps. Or perhaps that was simply the way that this pandemic was destined to go. It hasn’t been around long enough yet for us to understand it’s seasonality or the totality of other factors in its spread. Early on, everyone was declaiming the ineptness of the US with its high disease burden while other countries - like India, Brazil, and most of Africa - seemed to be spared. Perhaps, for whatever reason, the other countries just hadn’t gotten their turn yet... and now they have. We clearly don’t yet know the natural course of this disease.