What I can’t even begin to understand is why would there not be a second wave? Nothing biological has changed. Prevention measures have been mostly a temporary lockdown which obviously has a extremely high cost in money and goodwill.
Sometimes a virus will mutate to become less deadly. Could that be happening right now with COVID-19? Maybe. Judge for yourself...
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/doctors-...
We also have social distance + better hygiene + more PPE for doctors + improved security protocols in elderly care.
> there are quite a few also protesting against the lockdown measures.
These protests are interesting and different because a lot of factors are playing into them:
- Obviously, black lives matter
- Pent-up anger over Trump
- Pent-up frustration over lockdowns
- Unemployed people with nothing to do
- People who are desperate (read: have nothing to lose)
- Media coverage focusing on very few issues
And these issues play into each other.
Once the weather gets better again you can bet that all along the European coasts hoardes or people will be ignoring the laxer provisions. In fact, they already are.
Europe (at least Western Europe) is also giving up on the pandemic. At this rate there's going to be a second wave. I have no idea if this will create better conditions for the virus to mutate and possibly herald a third wave keeping us in until 2022.