With only lax policies in place, those cases will continue to rise. Hospitalizations lag behind cases by about two weeks; by Thanksgiving, today’s soaring cases will be overwhelming hospitals that already cannot cope. “The wave hasn’t even crashed down on us yet,” Perencevich said. “It keeps rising and rising, and we’re all running on fear. The health-care system in Iowa is going to collapse, no question.”
Source: The Third Surge Is Breaking Health-Care Workers – The Atlantic
The scene on Interstellar when our protagonists realize those aren’t mountains.
They’re waves. The next one is cresting over the US right now and we’re just here for the ride.
A lot of people are not going to make it