meh
covid will eventually be another disease just like the flu in terms of how we view it.
already the sensible singaporeans are stopping the data on cases and contact tracing and just reporting hospital presentations (which is what we have done with the flu for 50 years).
delta seems about 4 times as transmissable as the flu and about 3 times as deadly.
(12x)
fluvax is usually only about 60 % effective.
the current vaxes seem about that good or better.
so , crunching the numbers with my focused brain.
i think covid in 2023, 2024,2025 and in perpetuity should be killing about 12 x the flu tally.
flu kills about 1000 a yr, covid should knock off about 12,000.
not species ending .
diabetes, cancer, heart disease and strokes all kill more.
we will learn to live with it.
we certainly wont have premiers holding news conferences describing each death
unless they think the public want 12,000 politician delivered eulogies per year (which they dont/wont).
we'll look back on this in 4 or 5 years and think
WTF were people doing in 2021, filling every moment of every news cycle with covid.
we are going to have to learn to live (and die ) with it.
why not make a start now.
you are only putting off the inevitable