> By that point it will have mutated into being a cold for most people. Just to clarify that it's not the virus that will become more benign in an endemic situ

> By that point it will have mutated into being a cold for most people. Just to clarify that it's not the virus that will become more benign in an endemic situation - it's the hosts that will adapt to it, similar to how baby's/children's immune systems develop. At birth they are immunologically naive but then their immune systems are being primed by exposure to common pathogens like coronaviruses, influenza etc (which is why young children are ill all the time). > Let's just be honest though, the risk is just really really low for anyone in decent health. With the vaccine it's 0. I agree with your assessment but let's not forget that the IFR of Covid-19 scales exponentially with age. Which is another reason to get the vaccine.