Of Covid Ever Ending

When will Covid go away/stop being a big problem?

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Who can really tell. We could assume that maybe by the end of next year, those of us in Western countries may largely go back to normal. Unless people refuse to get boostered eventually which would become a problem potentially (nevermind those that don't get vaccinated in the first place). We're also not helping poorer countries much and for those, it will obviously be a longer lasting problem. We're also completely hoarding the vaccines in the West so maybe we will have an actually very serious variant six months or a year from now that the vaccines can't deal with. With our lack of solidarity for other people in our own country and for less fortunate countries, we're certainly not contributing to a quick end to the pandemic. So maybe by the end of next year where we live. Maybe 2-3 years? Maybe longer. I'm just glad my country is planning to introduce mandatory vaccines.

 
Well, seeing as the Spanish flu killed about ten times more people than covid, and we are way less physically fit to combat covid than we were with the Spanish flu, this whole thing should already be over, but both sides of the aisle have used it, and this sickness has been overly politicized and used to promote government power.

 
I have a friend who researches coronavirus in swine and was actually presenting at a conference in China about how the next world pandemic would likely be a mutated virus from swine that infected humans.  His concern is that variants tend to become more lethal the longer a virus is allowed to mutate so he is more concerned about what we may be battling in 5 years than we are today.  Who knows - I know I can't see the future.

 
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Not going away ever.  And as long as politicians and media and celebrities keep using it to further their own agendas we will continue to choke on their vast quantities of BS ideologies that have been rammed down our throats for the last 2yrs.

 
Arln said:
It will stop being a problem when people realize its here to stay forever. Its a regular like the Flu. Live life. Stop letting a virus that will never go away keep you from doing fun stuff in your finite life.
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This is the right attitude, but only after people receive vaccination and we are patient until treatments are readily available to all. The first step is 100% vaccination rate. I can tell you living in town with a college campus that has a vaccine mandate, it worked perfectly. They have no masks and no noteworthy communal spread.

 
Arln said:
It will stop being a problem when people realize its here to stay forever. Its a regular like the Flu. Live life. Stop letting a virus that will never go away keep you from doing fun stuff in your finite life.
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The flu comparisons are exactly why countries do not manage to get it under control. And "live life" is an easy thing to say but we still don't know what the long-term effects of an infection are and in my country, hundreds of people still die every day at the moment. It's basically like a Boeing crashes everyday and kills all passengers. So "live life" is a shortsighted and self-centered view where your convenience is above the health of the most vulnerable. Solidarity only if it doesn't inconvenience me.

 
ugh I don't know.

All I know I dodged it for almost two years and now work us called us in for mandatory 'testing' days and I have covid.

THANKS FOR for ruining my Christmas and ski vacation. 

 
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