If you really claim that this may be the last respiratory pandemic ever, you're either a fool or deliberately exaggerating your way into an absurd claim. Furth

If you really claim that this may be the last respiratory pandemic ever, you're either a fool or deliberately exaggerating your way into an absurd claim. Furthermore, the obsession with "stopping the spread" of something whose spread plainly can't be stopped EVEN with draconian security theater and lockdown measures is simply misguided. It's a classic case of shifting goal posts right into Goodheart's Law in the sense that the much more reasonable previous focus on stopping hospitalization and death rates has been shifted to a manic focus on case numbers period, regardless of their real harm to people. As a result, we risk containment measures causing much more harm than the increasingly harmless cases of the virus themselves, as it inevitably becomes an endemic part of our human infection cycle. This is what so many previous viral diseases have done and we've learned to live with them quite decently. Enough bloody hysteria about every new variant or spread of the virus unless it's actually harming large numbers of people to a dangerous degree.