@boys3
I agree. I was going to put that cases a month ago were around half what we have today, which may bode for the future, then deleted it for being too depressing.
The other issue I'm noticing is people just change their expectation, even among people on this thread who are, on the whole, aware pf the facts.
Remember the horror of 22k when they'd been lost down the back of the sofa? Then this week with 52k there were sighs of relief that it wasn't "that bad". People are adjusting their sights as to what's bad without realising, becoming acclimatised to larger numbers.
I think we need to realise that, going by the deaths, we're probably surpassing the first wave figures, possibly by quite a bit as, I believe, survival rates have improved. We can't any more hide behind "oh, but we weren't testing enough in the first wave so that was worse."