One thing that seems kind of insane to me is the people who continue to insist that COVID case surges and declines are due to policies that vary greatly across regions and countries and not the 1 thing these places have in common, which is seasonality https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1357732274826010628

There's always the question of "if this is a seasonality issue, why aren't we seeing it in east Asian countries?"

The answer to that is "because we are seeing it"

Now I want to be as clear possible

We are not seeing this in east Asian countries on anything like the scale we're seeing it in the US or Europe. Japan has one third the population of the US but their case peak was like 3-4% of our case peak.

But these spikes are seasonal