I have to LOL at the people that think this thing will go away. It won’t. Ever.
This kind of genie doesn’t go back in the bottle. Even if vaccines that were 100% effective against the current plethora of variants existed, the amount of unvaccinated people worldwide and the mathematical inability and infrastructure to get everyone vaccinated in a window that would conquer current variants while not allowing for further mutation is an unsolvable problem. That’s not even accounting for the billions of animals that serve as virus factories for this thing. Even if we did manage to pull off the impossible and mass vaccinate the world in 24 hours, there are likely millions upon millions of animals with this right now and they will continue infecting each other repeatedly. All it takes is one variant to evade vaccines and then we are literally starting all over.
I fear that people are getting their hopes up for something that is, for all intents and purposes, a practical impossibility. At some point, we will all get a version COVID. Over and over and over again. At some point it will scale the ladder of mortality and overtake things like cancer and heart disease based on the sheer infectivity and variability of disease. If Delta doesn’t get you, Lambda is a threat. If Lambda doesn’t, Gamma is problematic.
The mathematical possibilities are infinite for this disease, and unfortunately we only have finite solutions to an incomprehensible magnitude of possibilities. It is infinite while we are not.
My suggestion would be to get used to the idea that everyone has a better than 50% chance of dying from COVID.
All the virus needs is one shot at you, and sadly it has an unlimited supply of ammo.