This advice does not work.

I have been "giving it another week" for 3 weeks now, trying to figure out which direction it is going to go.

It's unknown at the moment, but I doubt the bad guys win.

Pessimism isn't my style.

Who's the bad guy? Viruses don't have intentions

That's a pretty useless dichotomy. You could say that about pretty much any problem of any size, and it would be technically true.

Enough of the dramatization. It accomplishes nothing but stress.

The one thing I'm confident in predicting is that things won't be as they were.

To what extent is impossible to say right now.