I feel by now the experts will know just how serious this is likely to be. The error bars and confidence intervals on wildly differing predictions must be coming down by now. What is the live data saying in regards to the scale of the peak we might expect, and the extent of serious illness that will generate over a short time period?
What would bother me if I was a Public Health administrator is that my resources and capacity to deal with this will be hampered by lack of staff, and that although the illness will be very mild in most, the peak is going to be almost needle-like, and significantly high so that inevitably there will be a wave of very sick people all requiring attention over a week rather than 6 weeks, and then it will collapse. But for that week, what do you do?
Is there are way of slowing this down? If you do, you have to lock down hard and fast and now, and vaccinate like crazy, and publicise it a lot more than present. I'd also do it smart by identifying the at risk groups. We aren't doing that. There are old and sick people who haven't been boosted because we are just concentrating on numbers at the moment. The old and sick can't go to a walk-in clinic and wait for 2 hours, and they aren't likely to make an appointment online. And their GP surgery is too over-worked to chase them up. Not all have attentive grand-children to look after them. You need teams of health professionals sitting down and finding them otherwise in 3 weeks those people will likely be the ones who are seriously ill. The one thing about Covid is that it doesn't strike at random