I was chatting with my sister yesterday, public health phds, harvard,blah blah blah. I asked for the ultimate conservative worsecase scenario:
Aids gave us condoms, to be used forever now.
Covid will give us masks and yearly double dose injections forever......forever. Life expectancy worldwide plummets. Basically when you get to 60ish with pre existing conditions, its almost a death sentence, people in general will just start dying earlier and we will accept it.
It never goes away. Covid stays with us forever and spikes every now and again.
She also said None of the vaccinnes touted over 90% had been peer reviewed.....dosent mean theyre not amazing, but it does mean that expectations should be moderated. Its not a silver bullet. The announcements are for stock prices mostly,but a lot of work has to be done by society to make it work and she doubts USA will have the will. Japan,china,south korea,Africa, Europe no problem but the USA specifically......no confidence, too many variables.