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My 2 cents

We are over the worst of the pandemic.

The "second wave" (at least in Europe) is not as severe as the "first wave" based on ICU admissions of COVID patients.

We are now in a situation where governments are trying to juggle letting the elderly succumb and allowing people to go about their lives (assuming countries have the ICU capacity to continue routine services in tandem).

This will likely continue until the first (likely) non-sterilizing vaccine(s) are rolled out and then people will start to relax and begin to let the virus live alongside all the other respiratory viruses that have jumped the species barrier over the centuries.

Humans will continue and evolve parallel to the virus until the virus becomes as severe as the modern flu virus was pre-pandemic.

Thoughts?