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by pasabagi 1602 days ago
It should be fine.

If you consider the UK as a sort of upper-bound[0] on how many people can die if you just relax all restrictions in a vaccinated population, it works out to an average of 250 deaths per week.

That is, as a worst-case scenario, probably manageable.

On the other hand, I know many doctors and nurses hate this kind of thinking, because they view a high coronavirus incidence as a driver of a degradation of general standards of care, so consequently, a driver of excess deaths.