Also it's ridiculous to call the second U.S. hump a new surge in the same country. The US is huge geographically.
I could pick two countries in Europe who got hit at different times, superimpose their charts and say 'see look Europe had a second hit'.
Not So.
Everywhere north gets hit once and the temperate countries/areas MAY see a more plateaued or slight double hump pattern, which happens to be how influenza behaves.
Other factors will mess a little with those general shapes but ...
Lockdowns and masks have done nothing significant ... like putting out beach chairs to stop the tide. To the extent they have done anything they may have delayed the deaths of some people and maybe some will escape if the dang thing really burns out before their TCell compromised systems get hit.
Fraud fraud fraud everywhere. Yes a seed of truth, yes an actual nasty-ish flu, and a certain amount death and sickness. But everything ABOUT that seed - the statistics, prognostications, opinions, reporting ... fraud. Even with so much visible fraud, it's impossible to tell yet how much of the seed itself is fraud - I will say much of it. That is, something has occurred. Beyond that ... who knows.
Farrs Law of Epidemics strikes again