As for the vaccine, I doubt it worth trying to vaccinate everyone as there are just too many that don't want it.
The point is not to "vaccinate everyone", but to vaccinate *enough" people that we can't get outbreaks again because the R Number will be low enough to stop it spreading.
Those of us young or healthy enough to not worry about it will be fine, just like the seasonal flu.
I'm 55 (ye gods!) but I'm pretty healthy, not overweight, keep myself fit etc, however today I got a phone call offering me the annual Flu Jab.
I wasn't sure whether to have it or not, simply because I couldn't really see any benefit to myself, however then I considered that the downsides of *not* having it (not the least putting my severely asthmatic girlfriend at risk) were serious enough to outweigh any other factors, so I called the Doctors and booked it in for Wednesday.
Rememer that, just because you're "young and healthy", doesn't mean that you're *not* going to have problems with COVID and, with the risk of symptomless transmission, you could pass it on to someone else who is going to have problems.
I think faster more accurate testing it the most viable option
Had we put our efforts into testing and tracing contacts of people at the start of the Pandemic (and not freely letting people from virus hotspots to fly into the country and then merrily travel on their way), we could have probably reduced the severity of it by a large amount!
Either way that along with this vaccine is a promising step in the right direction for a change
That's one of the few upsides, it's been a wake-up call for those in power and the medical sciences are, at least, being listened to, rather than ignored.