It's no real surprise that the data, and now our lived experience, is taking us towards an endemic flu scenario.
Right from day 1, people tried to make the comparison with influenza but were generally accused of being distasteful or disrespecting the power of the virus to cause harm. But I think that was generally more to do with the discussion of whether covid was more or transmissible than flu. Or more or less deadly than flu. (Or simply denying it altogether.)
People didn't like those comparisons, in case it turned out to be a world-ender.
At that point we just didn't know.
But the comparison was still entirely valid from a biological perspective. We're now seeing us converge asymptotically towards the flu state. Can't banish it. Can't stop it spreading. It's a respiratory virus.
Still plenty to learn, but one thing I'd like to see is antibody testing on the entire population, in a single 24 hour period. (Yes, I know). Build a picture of our current immunity across the different variants, the effects of the vaccine, the basal population immune state.
To shed some light on what avalanche might lie ahead, or not.