Ps one of my besties attended a pharma conference in Vegas. Stressful…1/3 was over covid…1/3 was still panicked and cautious but forced to go into close situations with indoor dining. About 10% of the conference at best guess has come down with the Rona post trip (prob undercount since not everyone tested) the vast majority with mild allergies so far all non seriousThat will gradually reduce too as we run out of immunonaive people and the vaccinated come down with it. The death/hospitalization waves will go lower and lower with each spike but people (like they do with flu, adenovirus, other coronavirus and even the common cold) will always die from it particularly at old age. The updated boosters will help…likely updated each year for at least a while…with new variants it looks like it’s already running away from these boosters even before being released. Eventually we’ll stop counting which is why we don’t notice the others as much except in a bad flu/corona seasons
the thing that I think everyone (both on team panic and team reality) got wrong at various points was how long this would all go on
pps the most scary part of my vacay was the possibility of testing positive and getting stuck abroad and travel insurance only covers part of it