Everyone`s opinion here is just that....an opinion. No one has all the facts and there are more unknowns than knowns about the nature of this novel virus or the eventual path it will take. A miracle may happen that will cause the virus to die off or lose its potency. On the other hand no vaccine or effective cure will be found and we may be left in a cycle of isolation and non isolation. Does immunity work and what about herd immunity is it a possibility ….. not been tested yet. All we can do now , including Fauci is speculate about the many unknowns and possibilities.
Cloudsurf, I mostly agree with your opinion, but here a setting is different.
Before the crisis, all the researchers in this field, in the world, worked on their side, really not much collaboration between the research laboratories (except when we have to determine the human genome).
Today all the labs. even those whose fields of work were different, work in the same direction, and even in the USA where researchers work hard to find a solution (naturally hoping that their president doesn't prevent them from contributing to the common effort.
But with him, you never know, because there he wants to discredit Fauci (oops that was my political editorial).