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JoyfulSilence · 46-50, M
I think it will never go away, and become like the seasonal flu, or even the common cold.
Evolution will favor variants that cause less severe disease (since dead people cannot spread it anymore, and sick people are not out and about to spread it more). Also, it will favor a faster spreading variant. Just look at what is happening now, omicron is overtaking delta by spreading faster. Omicron also packs less of a punch.
I suspect everybody will get some version eventually, and keep getting it, and after a year or two it will be just another cold virus. Vaccines may not keep up since the need is less, since few die or get really sick anymore. Or it might be like the flu vaccine, where they just make a new one each year to fight the projected mix of viruses.
Evolution will favor variants that cause less severe disease (since dead people cannot spread it anymore, and sick people are not out and about to spread it more). Also, it will favor a faster spreading variant. Just look at what is happening now, omicron is overtaking delta by spreading faster. Omicron also packs less of a punch.
I suspect everybody will get some version eventually, and keep getting it, and after a year or two it will be just another cold virus. Vaccines may not keep up since the need is less, since few die or get really sick anymore. Or it might be like the flu vaccine, where they just make a new one each year to fight the projected mix of viruses.
TinyViolins · 31-35, M
Historically, pandemics have typically ended after the virus killed off the hosts and allowed the infection to die before it could continue spreading. There have always been piles of bodies before it was safe to go out again.
The virus will mutate more and more with each passing day, so it may mutate into this deadlier strain that wipes people out before they can spread it. Or it can mutate into something relatively mild and just become a seasonal thing like the flu. Most likely, both will happen.
Right now, we're only treating the symptoms of hospitalization and death through vaccines. We're not actually stopping the spread like we would have if everything got locked down. I think the virus is too widespread now to end it. We'd have to lock the entire planet down, and that's not really feasible.
At this point, the best we can do is develop quick, at-home testing and incentives to avoid public spaces so that people could voluntarily avoid spreading the disease themselves.
The virus will mutate more and more with each passing day, so it may mutate into this deadlier strain that wipes people out before they can spread it. Or it can mutate into something relatively mild and just become a seasonal thing like the flu. Most likely, both will happen.
Right now, we're only treating the symptoms of hospitalization and death through vaccines. We're not actually stopping the spread like we would have if everything got locked down. I think the virus is too widespread now to end it. We'd have to lock the entire planet down, and that's not really feasible.
At this point, the best we can do is develop quick, at-home testing and incentives to avoid public spaces so that people could voluntarily avoid spreading the disease themselves.
masterofyou · 70-79, M
@TinyViolins What are you even talking about? Are you writing a book? Do you even know anything??
FreestyleArt · 31-35, M
Jill1990 · 31-35, F
I believe we have something that can stop it, but people won’t take it. I guess it will continue to mutate and kill until something worse comes along. Happy new year.
I imagine it will, Bubonic plague and the flu in the 1900's eventually passed. Just sad about the loss of life in all of them.
SW-User
Welcome to the new normal
SW-User
@Trayale I'm planning on running away to a deserted island away from society and such
Mamapolo2016 · F
Were we ever normal?
masterofyou · 70-79, M
No.... What is normal?
nothing will ever be normal again. (:
Trayale · 46-50, F
@deathfairy Boooooooo