> Mr Hancock said there was "nothing to suggest" it caused worse disease or that vaccines would no longer work.

I was paying more attention to the vaccines would no longer work part. People need a worldview in order to function. Mine has been shattered a few times, including with this pandemic. Still, I have a lot of expectations. I don't think there will be anything worse than COVID-19 that comes from a highly communicable respiratory transmitted illness, just like when I lived in the Bay Area I didn't think there would be a huge earthquake anytime soon...

The possibility of the current crop of vaccines not being overwhelmingly effective, or not being distributed widely, or not being taken widely, thereby extending the quarantine past this summer, is something I'm braced for (although not really prepared for).