Vaccinations will take off in the Biden administration. Like competent, responsible professionals they publicly predict worst or near-worst case. You don’t promise what you’re not sure you can deliver in a catastrophe like this. Not if you’re ethical. But we’ll be going from malicious incompetents to people who see COVID as their #1 priority and were chosen for being some of the most competent in the world. I don’t have the expertise to predict the details, but I don’t need expertise to know the difference will be huge.
EDIT – I’ll be honest, we’re up shit creek until the 20th.