Well, maybe. It's amusing to picture this article being written, in some variant, after each of those peaks with a different choice of x- and y-axis cutoffs. C

Well, maybe. It's amusing to picture this article being written, in some variant, after each of those peaks with a different choice of x- and y-axis cutoffs. Comprehensive vaccination seems to be working, and I'm not one of those "amazing new variant" doomsayers who imagines that every variant is going to overcome vaccine resistance. The idea that we have a large pool of unvaccinated people coupled with a lot of cases seems like a neat way to exert selection pressure towards the creation of strains that are at least quite virulent, if not necessarily dangerous-to-vaccinated-people. But I'd say the air of celebration in these articles is premature, and the cliche that "oh, it will become endemic and we'll learn to live with it" tends to overlook that "endemic" covers a huge range of outcomes, including some unacceptably bad ones.