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• verdverm 5y ago
  Well maybe, when we graduate to accepting the endemic nature, we'll stop appending the year to it
  • somewhereoutth 5y ago
    Maybe when we've suppressed it as we have with measles. Otherwise, as we have seen with Alpha, Beta, Delta and now Omicron, new variants will keep arising and keep making people very sick. Smallpox used to be endemic, Polio used to be endemic, measles used to be endemic. That is not where we want to end up at. How do we stop this? The same way we did with the others - comprehensive vaccination, mandated if necessary. Lockdowns on any outbreaks.
    • Ekaros 5y ago
      Vaccines make me doubtful as we don't yet have sterilising solution. And long term effectiveness is still questioned. What we now have with our inter-connected globalized world make it really hard to get rid off...
      • somewhereoutth 5y ago
        Indeed - they do seem to wane, for symptomatic infection anyway, and we see what happens regarding hospitalisations. Hopefully boosters will provide longer protection. Definitely a learning process.
    • verdverm 5y ago
      Covid us closer to the flu than smallpox. It is never going away. Even with 100% vaccination, people will still get sick. As peer comment noted, there is not a sterilization vaccine. This is the same with the flu. Covid will most likely evolve into a more transmissible, less lethal variant as time goes on.