I don’t understand how there hasn’t been a spike yet? (Aside from isolated outbreaks in various factories/regions) From what I can tell both the infection and death rates have been steadily decreasing/plateauing ... looking around I’d say a vast amount of people haven’t been social distancing for a good month now. There’s been parties/raves/protests for weeks, and nothing seems to have happened? Is it being outdoors that is slowing it down, then as soon as winter comes it’ll become more infectious? I really do think it’s going to be a cyclical flu-like illness that comes back every year. I really hope it can be managed without having to lockdown on a yearly basis! Can you imagine!
The other thing I don’t get is that every single year the NHS is pushed to the absolute brink with flu and general gastric bug patients. New wards are opened, there’s no beds, patients being turned away etc. Yet we’ve never been expected, as a public, to take any measure to prevent this happening? I know there is a vaccine for flu but even with this in place it’s still rampant. What is so unique about COVID that we have to take measures vastly beyond those we take with other resp illness? before now I would never worry about being a asymptomatic for flu and passing it onto an elderly relative for instance. Is normal flu just not that contagious? I know they say covid is but...is it really? I have colleagues who have had it, and never passed it on to their family members. I feel like no one really knows... and maybe that’s why we locked down “just in case” it was this absolutely devastating killer disease. Maybe now they know more about it lockdown won’t be necessary even if the cases spike again.