Saying there's "no visible end in sight" is meaningless in this context. If you model the epidemic, as many researchers have, you will see when the end of the epidemic is.
Do you have a link to a study of said researchers saying when the epidemic will end? I'm asking because I've been following this whole epidemic thing since just before Wuhan was put into lockdown, I currently live in Europe and I don't see us getting out of the dark with the current measures being taken.
Yeah, that's probably how the Black Death ended in the mid-1300s, everything "ends" at some point, I was inquiring of the possibility of this "ending" without the obituary pages in local newspapers growing ten-fold in a matter of 7 or 8 days.