I feel sorry for people in the UK because you are now starting on the "second wave" without having really come out of the first.
You are mistaken. By early August the UK pattern was very low just as it then was in France and Spain. There is some debate as to whether what we are seeing now is simply the result of doing more tests per day than anywhere else in Europe - 250k typically. If you look harder you find more.
An Irish man's view on the situation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrRijSa8494&feature=emb_logoInteresting that Italy seems to be doing better than most other major European countries. Wonder why.