Epidemic modeling has been quite accurate at predicting this current wave in Germany.
Here's yours truly, cautioning that 'the coming winter risks being brutal', 58 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28700532
Common sense can also work in the short term. E.g. Austria (and Netherlands) seem to have crested the cases wave [1], which I predicted a 3 days ago by looking at the death rates plateauing, and noticing that the same pattern happened in US southern states and BG/RO [2]. I wonder what said models were saying 3 days ago, if such models exist for AT/NL and if they happen to publish their historical predictions.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29334288
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...