I think everybody agrees with Lygonos' statements, the challenge is to try to make it spread over the longest time possible.
This is going to be regular cycles of surpress contact, infection slows; relax suppression, infection grows, and repeat;
Hopefully with each cycle being less aggressive than the previous. This will continue until 80%+ of the population has had the virus.
Will the resulting immunity be permanent? Perhaps not. Perhaps it will be only for a limited time further worsened by a mutating virus. Think how flu goes.
Then I guess it will become a seasonally occurring problem with the only protection being vaccinations which will require repeating annually and will be essential for the vulnerable.
Bearing in mind that there is a limited supply of the vulnerable and many will die quickly.
Think seasonal forest fires. The longer you prevent them the bigger they are when they finally happen. And ultimately you cannot stop them, you can simply limit the impact they have.
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