I stand by my prediction of a doubling of the deaths and the virus sticking around for a couple more years. A new drug to fight this thing would extend the need to keep it around. How else do you think they're going to make their money?
There's a new variant found in Germany that's shown to be "invisible" to the antibodies brought on by the vaccines. Nothing was said about antibodies from previous infection (again left out). So if this thing gets here the existing vaccines and vaccine boosters would be ineffective and necessitate an evolution in the booster. Not like the boosters they've been administering, which has been a lower dose of the original.
Personally, I don't care how many people die from this thing, people die every day from everything and nothing changes. What I don't like is the way the gummint goes about attempting to remedy situations. Too little too late. Typically ONE solution that targets ONE part of the problem, and push that agenda 'til some other part of the problem is amplified by what was done by their narrow-sighted solution. Those narrow-sighted solutions are typically driven by personal belief, and the facts are ignored, UNLESS the facts backed the belief or could be used for fear control. Look at L.A. couties banning of the dangerous chemical "Dihydrous Monoxide". That was hilarious!