Let's set the number of dead from the first wave at something pretty high, say 200,000 dead 'Muricans.
Then let's say there is, as many have predicted, a second wave late in the year, which is worse than the first. Say 400,000.
That's over half a million this year. Let's say in subsequent years, we are all super-serious about masks and staying at home, and we get better at treating the illness, so we reduce the death toll to just 400,000. That's high, but we're giving the pessimists the benefit here.
If I'm mathing my maths right, we would hit 5 million dead in about 12 years. If there's a vaccine to be found, you'd think we'd have found it by then.
So if, instead of Sept. 2020, charby really meant Dec. 2032...