The answer is actually probably for centuries. Only one infectious disease has ever been totally eradicated from the planet although we are getting close in the second. Once here though it's here to last.

The question is how do we come to a point where we determine we're living with it "normally". Do the new restrictions just become the new normal, does an effective vaccine allow enough community immunity to return to old style living, do we just give up trying to control it and aim at herd immunity accepting the level of deaths that might be needed... Others... A mix of these?

It's out now and will never go away. It keeps mutating so the vaccine might not work that well. The long term effects are not well known. It may cause a radical drop in fertility or expensive disabilities.

I don’t think it’s ever going to go away I think we will just learn to live with it. Like we do with all the other viruses we have in the World.

I think at some point we need to learn to live with it. I'm still undecided whether the latest guidance is control thing. Rather than suppressing it. It just seems silly and pointless

On the other hand. Keep the vulnerable at home and let the rest of us carry on. The more they want to suppress us, the more people will be rioting. Look what happened at the 10pm pub closures.

It will last until at least 2025.

That's strange cos the WHO said 2022

That's because people on the internet are the smartest mother fuckers ever.

Who knows how long it will last?
No one.