I don't see how France can maintain this level of shut down for more than a month tops. They WILL protest, and often, and that spreads the thing obviously. Yellow vests, green, blue, red, whatever.
Germany took more measured steps, though one might opine they won't do much.
Sweden is worse than they were months ago, new records there also, nearly 3400 new cases Oct. 28.
The state of Georgia is ticking up but running about 1,500 new cases per day now about the same pop. as Sweden. France is running close to 50,000 new reported cases per day. That is about five times more per capita than the US.
I lean to thinking it's a new variant/mutation/strain that is more communicable. Hopefully it is less virulent.