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I mean, what do you make of Brazil? Is it full of "Western Baby Boomers"? And India? The new cases have largely shifted to those places where the first wave is/was slower, outside Western Europe. Whether the West should force them to do anything is moot.

Your comment sounds to me like yet another assessment of the situation that is based on the implicit (false) idea that the situation is static. Or that many places are not already reopening and seeing the consequences.

It's not just that there are active cases, but there are more cases every day. It's not just that there are new cases every day, but that the daily new cases are increasing. It's not just that the daily new cases are increasing, but that the rate of increase is increasing. I think that's like...the third derivative?

The global daily death rate does, and would be expected to, lag new cases substantially, but it has stopped declining and looks to be picking up.