@TheKeatingFive
Jeez, there's going to be years of this, isn't there?
It certainly could be decades before covid stops posing a threat. All this "we're winning with vaccines" talk is extremely premature and likely wrong.
In terms of a football match - at the start of this year it was 3-0 to covid, we've currently pulled back to 3-2 with the help of our super-sub, Vaccine and we were pressing for the equalizer, but India has come on and the game may be starting to turn again.
If we can get the equalizer, then extra time beckons - can we get a winner or will it go to a replay later this year?
Ideally, we bring the virus down to such low levels in the UK and achieve such high vaccination rates, that it becomes relatively easy to track/trace down any new variants that sneak into the country. This WAS looking highly likely until recent weeks - maybe we still can get there? If we do, then life will seem far more normal here, although many new barriers/costs to international travel for the foreseeable future. If we don't then we'll either be limping along for years, trying to keep the worst of the virus at bay, or we take it on the chin, accept the deaths and hope that it turns out not too bad in the end. Hope because even with vaccinations, allowing a largely unknown virus to propagate through a population carries immense risks.