The surge is based on fraudulant nonsense. The tests being used have an approximately 90% false positive rate. We are now into flu season and everyone with a headache, sore throat or cough is getting tested for coronavirus. The fact that you can't see the forest through the trees says more about you than I ever could.
Say what you want about me. It won't change the fact that a) The flubro/a faction on FR, or at least a significant portion of it, claimed that the coronavirus was a hoax cooked up by the media to throw the election and there would be no more COVID-19 stories after 11/4 and b) it is after 11/4 and clearly there are still plenty of COVID-related news articles.