cherdano, on 2021-April-22, 02:44, said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56830398
I don't see any minimising of it
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When the next wave will come is also not clear. Eventually it is expected the virus will become seasonal like flu. But that cannot be a given for this year - hence the summer warnings.
It's why government scientists are insisting we move forward carefully.
But why in the long-run we can learn to live with Covid.
The implication is that after this year we can live with it, but we have to be careful this year, which seems a reasonable interpretation of what the scientists are saying. Also the 100K is probably from the model that suggested everything would be 2-3 times as bad as it has proven to be at every stage. Unless an apocalyptic new variant appears, 100K seems horribly unlikely as by the time of the predicted peak, the vast majority of adults will have had at least one dose of vaccine and a small majority will have had both.