Re: COVID-19 decides. And CO2 decides. And lobbyists decide
"Covid's kind of turned out to be a bit of a damp squib."
I suggest you familiarise yourself with pandemic curves over the last 150 years. Traditionally the SECOND wave has been the one which takes out the most people - usually by a factor of 10 or so - and we haven't even seen the peak of the first wave worldwide yet, let alone the begeinnings of the second one.
Take onboard the 1918 lessons of Philadelphia, San Francisco and Apia
Biting the hand that feeds IT
