The COVID-19 is pandemic and not epidemic because it touches all continents all around the world. It is exponential ant not gaussian because there is a second wave in a lot of countries. But maybe the first wave never stopped, and we are testing more and more people. Maybe the curve with continue to grow but start to flatten, nobody is able to predict the future. Just don't bet against the trend, apply the maximum security to yourselves and only yourselves (until it goes to 0 with 100% of recover and 0% of death ?). There is not plot, nobody is lying, governments and people have just no ideas of what will happen because we are facing something imprecise.