BarryB wrote:
I'm a bit worried about phase-2, when people get tired of stay at home and masking, relaxing their awareness I fear a comeback (which usually happens in flu season too).
Yeah, that's a big unknown. I guess all we can do is wait and see what happens. And no matter what happens, I'll be taking precautions at least until the vaccine is available and probably beyond that.
It's interesting that we're up to about 11,000 covid deaths in the US, and so far in this flu season we've had an estimated 40,000 deaths from the seasonal flu! (actually the CDC is estimating 24,000 – 63,000 flu deaths, so they're not very sure) The current prediction for total covid deaths in the US is 82,000.
thats what happened in 1918. second wave hit.