RE: My opinion23 Jan 2021 15:39
Since the collapse of the Italian health system, the management of COVID has all been about ensuring the spread of the virus was at a rate that allowed management of those that unfortunatley got sick with it or died. The nightingale hospitals have not been required as the intense lockdowns have been able to keep the numbers at a manageable level.
That was all about buying time for either a cure or vaccine to be found. Both are coming through at the same time. The global economy can not sustain never ending lockdown. It is not a matter of if, but when. Frankley, if nec, the nightingale facilities will be brought online and the extent of infection allowed to be increased. The last plan, the last option, is to allow those susceptible to succumb and leave behind the resiliant and a straight forward natural selection criteria allowed to play out.
Being humand, we place great emphasis on keeping life going and making the effort to cure. So the pandemic rumbles on with a manageable level of victims for now. If the vaccines fail and the cures backfire, then the lifting of lockdown will still begin and you'll just have to keep your fingers crossed. If the vaccines work well and/or cures are avialable the the lifiting of lockdown will begin and humans will iterate back to the norms of prepandemic before the end of this year (either option starting in spring latest).
Various philisophical and political groups will do there best to seize the return agenda and craft populations to live whatever idealisim they are pushing, watch your back where the climate change brigade is concerned. The real trouble of human on human is to come as various ideologies try to force populations to follow and implement. Pandemic to followed by some nasty wars quite quickly I think.