For a variety of reasons media and influential organizations have avoided considering the upper bound on virility and mortality (? Not sure the right term) of covid.
But to think delta is it would be some kind of miracle. It would mean we are going through the worst of it, and that after we handle delta globally, people can worry about other things.
But it doesn’t stand to reason that we are done here with covid. There are too many hotspots and I believe delta is older than most of the big ones right now.
How likely is a nasty new variant not pop out of Iran or India, or Texas?
What about variants created by non-human beings like rats? [1] Are we going to skate by on those? That would be great!
I suspect the public is not ready to fully address the breadth and depth of covid’s impact. I also speculate that the “booster” shot suddenly being prescribed is intended to help ward off future variants as much or more so than delta alone.
[1] https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/researchers-find-covid...