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Originally Posted by 10023
Mission is accomplished. We have a vaccine and it has been given to the vulnerable. That’s as good as it’s going to get or needs to be. We aren’t going to eliminate Covid.
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You talk and think about Covid like it was from outer space. There are lots of viruses that have been around forever and used to ravage mankind. Even when I was a child almost every kid got measles, mumps and chicken pox. The unfortunate got polio. And before the invention of vaccination (actual vaccination—using vaccinia virus) smallpox was common.
SARS-CoV-2 can become like all these: Still around but limited to rare outbreaks that can be limited in scope with public health measures.
That’s the goal in the developed world. In the developing world, it’s likely it will be a disease that most people get in childhood when the symptoms are mild and by the time they are adults are immune. Developed world travellers to those endemic regions will need shots first.
The problem right now is that when the virus first came on the scene there was a world full of susceptible adults. That will not be the case in a few years in most of the world.