I think the message at the moment is that we need to be careful due to those new mutations whilst the vulnerable build up immunity from the vaccines. But long term this won’t be an issue, it’s just right now.
It’s a bit of a media onslaught with these constant mutations. But they’re only really found in countries who are good at analysing samples. Viruses mutate, scientists know this and so do vaccine makers. They’ll be able to tweak the vaccines and they still provide effectiveness. Enough still to reduce death and serious illness. And that’s the ultimate goal.
Nobody is minimising this. We are all in lockdown, following the rules. But what is different to previous pandemics is that we have the constant onslaught of media news and they can always put a spin on the news (normally fed by the government).
There is positive news to share in all this. It’s helpful for many to avoid the other threads. There’s far too many on here who would happily have everyone in lockdown until 2025. There needs to be a balance. One or two positive threads versus the hundreds of negative ones.