Zelensky's 'Second Wave'

There's a large fly on the president's forehead

Google search spits out more than 10 million links for a search of “зеленский вторая волна” (zelensky second wave). Ukraine’s president has given a false sense of how the the Covid-19 pandemic is actually developing in his country.

The Covid-19 incidence pattern in Ukraine shows clearly the first wave continuing to rise with little or no interruption. This is particularly common in the world’s poorer countries with inefficient and corrupt health systems.

Months of Zelensky blabbing about a “second wave” has been at best misleading and at worst diminishes the brutally unrelenting rise of the infection rate, which conforms unequivocally to the global infection rate: it rose fast, stabilized somewhat in late April and early May, before shooting up in July, August, September and October.