COVID-19 exit strategy 2 years alternating lockdown and release

COVID-19 exit strategy 2 years alternating lockdown and release
Here is the Imperial College research link and also an interview with another researcher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1wkV2IzR_U
I wrote in a comment that Professor Gunther Shonrich is saying that herd immunity is basically inevitable so good luck. I think it probably is because the thing is so contagious. We are all going to have to take our chance with it, especially next winter. He is talking about things like the Imperial College study pages 10 & 12, note the 2/3 lockdown, 1/3 release diagram on p12: 
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf

 The study has these figures. A picture paints 1000 words. They are in reverse order from that shown iin tht eoriginal paper:

 Alternating lockdowns and not-lockdowns until end of 2021 possible:

How the epidemic curves are modified by some interventions but you still see a huge spike in winter 2020-2021:

 The effect of interventions singly and in combination on the original 2020 epidemic curve:
In other words, the only way to reduce the winter peak is to re-introduce measures once the bed capacity reaches a certain level as per the first diagram. This is explained here:




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