Covid to remain leading cause of death
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Yes, that is impossible. One, Delta was significantly less lethal than the original variant. Two, the original variant already took out a chunk of the people in endangered demographics (extremely old, extremely fat), and effectively inoculated much of the rest of the population (the 99.x% that didn't die). It makes no sense for a later, weaker mutation of a virus to cause a big spike in mortality when the older, more lethal variant didn't.
And more places opening up? In my country the worst restrictions were in place in 2021, 2020 was relatively calm compared to last year's lunacy.
Russia and China have their own problems, and even if they blew the whistle, noone would care. People in the west, highly-credentialed scientists, have been blowing the whistle like mad and they've just been quietly censored and ignored.
Besides, what's better for Russia and China: Dealing a blow to the West's already nonexistent credibility, or having western countries force Safe and Effective shots on their populations while crippling their economies with lockdowns? (Yes, China went back to lockdown lunacy in 2022, crippling their own economy as well, but in the process they're also crippling the global supply chain even harder than before, and China can handle angry citizens easier than the EU or USA.)