India and other developing countries probably have a harder time controlling the outbreak (and governments and the young, food-insecure populations may judge the economic cost of social distancing to be higher than the risk of the virus).
There was a time when the number of worldwide cases appeared to stagnate because of the Chinese lockdown, but this number just hid the exponential growth of the European+US outbreaks.
What I said doesn’t contradict any explicit statement in your comment, I just want to argue against the hypothetical deduction from “the growth rate of the world as a whole has also turned linear” to “and this means that the world is over the hill”.
I’d like to point out that the growth in India is still exponential (linear on the log-scale) https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/. This could be or become true of other developing countries.
India and other developing countries probably have a harder time controlling the outbreak (and governments and the young, food-insecure populations may judge the economic cost of social distancing to be higher than the risk of the virus).
There was a time when the number of worldwide cases appeared to stagnate because of the Chinese lockdown, but this number just hid the exponential growth of the European+US outbreaks.
What I said doesn’t contradict any explicit statement in your comment, I just want to argue against the hypothetical deduction from “the growth rate of the world as a whole has also turned linear” to “and this means that the world is over the hill”.