Claims about Delta being "more infectious" are the same claim that was made for all the others. Dig into how they try to calculate that and you'll find the exact type of models that have repeatedly failed so far.

Remember: the UK released most of its restrictions, including masks and lockdowns in a so-called "freedom day". Experts said the country was performing a dangerous experiment on the entire world. Cases started plunging just three days later. To compare people pointing out the proven, beyond any doubt unreliability of claims about COVID to flat earthers shows just how ideological and blind this whole thing has become.

> just how ideological and blind this whole thing has become.

Yes, I agree that COVID denialism and antivax feelings are this way. :)

Most Republican states in the US dropped restrictions last year and cases aren't skyrocketing. People just don't talk about them.

Cases aren't skyrocketing? Have you...looked at the South recently?

> recently

So you're confirming what I said? "Last year" isn't "recently", meaning the current rise has nothing to do with dropping restrictions.

More than anything else it looks like it's fully seasonal, with timing of the the drops and rises this year matching last year pretty closely regardless of restrictions.