The current vaccines may not be enough to bring about the end of COVID-19. In fact, the virus could be with us for years to come.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1357931
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1357931
Well, influenza is around every year and we get a flu vaccine every year, so it’s probably going to be more or less like that: each October, you’ll need to swing by your local pharmacy or dr’s office for the seasonal Covid/flu inoculation.
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Wondering if the virus can mutate beyond our ability to control it?
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Welcome to the future, exacerbated by climate change.
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Bill Gates knew when he released it that he would need continuous reasons to implant chips in people, couldn’t be a one-off or tracking would be incomplete.
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We have never had any real choice with this virus except to do what NZ did and go for eradication. Letting it get into the general population has given it such a huge biomass to work with, that of course even a slow mutater like COVID is going to be able to keep ahead of us.
We chose to be stupider than a virus. We’re not quite so stupid under the new administration, but we are still too stupid to get ahead of this virus. In the end it is going to take a NZ approach, or it really will be our end. Spoiler alert, the NZ approach will involve rank socialism. We are going to find out soon if we prefer death to socialism
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Or maybe it will wipe out everyone who doesn’t have some level of natural immunity (by that Ievel I mean what has already been demonstrated by the fact that a lot of people have relatively mild cases).
Evolution at work.
That would take care of it.
Humans can’t control everything.
Yes, I know that’s a cynical take, but given how a lot of people have responded so far, cynicism has some basis.
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Scary but not unexpected
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Yeah. No real comparison with a cluster of islands which can all be rapidly shut off of each other and isolated entirely.
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The past administration put the mechanics into place that created this environment. We are actually quite a bit smarter with the new administration. But we have to make so many steps forward just to his the base line in what would have normally happened. [Individual-1] cost both lives and precious time.
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Got to update the tracking chip’s OS now and then.
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Maybe. We might just all have to adopt pet horseshoe bats. It seems the people who lived around the bat caves in Hubei are immune to covid. Bats are actually cool pets, but you need a frequency-lowering device to hear what your bat is saying. They also live about twice as long as dogs.
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I think that’s what is going to happen. Even with the vaccine.
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It’s difficult controlling the entire world population, especially with windows junk.
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Cute faces, but those wings are creepy…
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Never-ending waves of a potentially deadly, potentially debilitating disease.
Will it ever be safe to go dancing again? To date?
Regular life is just another victim of American Conservatism. It will take everything away from you if it is not destroyed.
God have mercy on everyone who hadn’t already “gotten theirs” before the Republican party destroyed everything. We will all die alone in prison cells we have to rent.
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Color me not surprised. If we (collectively) can get COVID to actually be “no worse than the flu” we’ll be doing well. Flu is hardly negligible, but it’s manageable, especially in the years when the vaccine developers guess right.
Maybe we’ll even get a combination vaccine someday.
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Well I can see it now. The Covid vaccine gives me covid. Well I get my shots, I don’t even cry.
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Even after I’m vaccinated (still waiting), I’ll continue to be masked when shopping, around congregating people and other situations where I have to come into close proximity to others.
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