I think your comments are spot on. This has the potential to change almost everything about the way we go about our lives for decades to come. Or, it could blow through, take its toll, whatever that is, and hopefully be a lesson.
We do not know yet. It is pulling back the curtain on a lot of things.
yes. the potential long-term impacts are beginning to sink in. also throw in decent odds a major war starts at some point in coming years. this is an extraordinarily destabilizing event.
i have not seen a coherent argument AGAINST annual epidemic from this, which is so bad it will by definition change our country and society into something directly out of post-apocalyptic fiction.