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I would caution against getting your hopes up. A milder variant might be nice, and on the longer term help resolve the pandemic. On the short term, however, i
by prof-dr-ir 5y ago
I would caution against getting your hopes up.
A milder variant might be nice, and on the longer term help resolve the pandemic.
On the short term, however, increased infectiousness may easily outweigh this. It is not hard to see the number of hospitalizations and deaths increasing, simply because of the larger total number of cases. Humanity will then generally try to mitigate this by stricter measures, and altogether we might end up with a rather nasty winter... again.
- tasogare 5y agoIt's been two years the media are saying "the hospital capabilities will be overflowed if this or that". It never happened. Each "wave" is small than the precedent and the disease is now somewhat known. The situation even seems fine enough in some countries that they fired a part of their health workers.
- swiley 5y agoThe admins have had two years to fix staffing/equipment shortages. If they're still struggling it's not the public that should suffer.