So, GA partially reopened late April, and not much happened, and a lot of places stayed closed. The increase started mid-June, which coincides with two weeks after the protests, but we're apparently not supposed to correlate those actions. So, six weeks after a partial reopening, new cases rose dramatically. The count peaked in late July and hospital capacity was being strained seriously, some places reported 105% usage. And then it started to decline, and now is at about half what it was late July, six weeks later.
To explain this by invoking "better use of masks and distancing" seems strained to me, it's not what I'm seeing anecdotally. Car and foot traffic are almost back to normal now.
My area under the curve hypothesis is consistent with these results.
France has gone way up, though perhaps is peaking now. Sweden of course, well we know what happened there.
