The Pandemic's Next Turn Hinges on Three Unknowns

[Celerity]

A potential winter surge is up to vaccines, variants, and us.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/11/pandemic-winter-surge-three-unknowns/620738/







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[WarGamer]

1. If European countries are a harbinger of things to come...

Watch out. Don't leave the house without your mask and bottle of hand sanitizer.

[FirefighterJo]

2. An update from Belgium

Flanders Region mostly. Today, one of our head virologists admitted that probably Corona will never disappear. Best case scenario is we can handle it like the flu, except that Corona will always have more severe consequences then just the flu. He said this because today with over 90 percent of the population vaccinated, we are as of tomorrow going back into partial lockdown with a new surge building, and everybody will be strongly invited for taking a third shot ( i got my first warning three days after my first invitation). Just saying.

[SoCalDavidS]

3. There Are No Unknowns In My Mind

I expect that Americans will continue acting irresponsible, and very few additional will get vaccinated.

We're not going to reach 70% vaccinated. And if we do, it will be Barely, and won't happen until well into 2022.

[roamer65]

4. It's an endemic virus now.

It will be around for a long time.

Like measles and smallpox.