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Originally Posted by bitontheslide

we already adapted having many more working than in the first lock down. The areas that suffer are physical retail and the hospitality/entertainment industries which are going to suffer from any pandemic.



Now that the vulnerable are vaccinated, the death rate will drop to single digits by April and if a booster vaccination is required every year, so be it. I think we need to look at the positives that came from this. Vaccination technology has progressed exponentially, working off site is easily feasible, business flights will sustain at a low level

I did read that the research into Covid vaccines has resulted in the first successful trials of a effective malaria vaccine with 80%+ efficacy (precious efforts had yielded a pretty much useless 40%).

If that's the case and it can be rolled out in good numbers, it'll save millions of lives in Africa, and unfortunately nearly 70% of Malaria deaths are children under 5 so that's really huge news. In fact on balance it's likely that more lives in the long term will be saved by medical advances related to the pandemic than will be lost to the pandemic.