No country is getting rid of Covid, ever. It will produce new variants forever. Good news is each variant will be a bit less and less lethal. Can we please stop this silly melodrama? Repugs are going to wipe up the floor with us in midterms if we do not start becoming the party of 'the pandemic is over and is now endemic'....which it absolutely is for 99.99999999% of those who are boosted and reasonably healthy.

KS Toronado

(17,205 posts)

6. Yes, please stop this silly melodrama

Reply to Jon King (Reply #5)

Wed Jan 26, 2022, 02:48 AM

Jan 2022

Karadeniz

(22,510 posts)

2. This, too, will pass...but it'll seem like forever!!!

Reply to demtenjeep (Original post)

Wed Jan 26, 2022, 02:15 AM

Jan 2022

Jon King

(1,910 posts)

3. Come on, this is not helpful and silly.

Reply to demtenjeep (Original post)

Wed Jan 26, 2022, 02:17 AM

Jan 2022

Seriously? The scientists have told us for long while that Covid will continue to evolve, a variant every year or so. We will vaccinate with the current vaccine. Each variant will become a bit less deadly. And yes it will become just like the flu. A few very sick or very unlucky folks will indeed die of Covid forever, just like happens with the flu.

What do you even mean 'this shit is never going to end'? What should we do, hide the kids in a cave forever? Come on now, we are much better than this. The vast majority of kids are just fine. A positive test is pretty much meaningless anymore. Covid is part of the deal now.

Time to stop the breathless melodrama. We are vaccinated and boosted and toss on a mask when we need to. Positive tests are no big deal and will part of the world and our lives forever.

It is literally this kind of stuff than the Repugs are messaging to win VA and will message to win the midterms. That Dems are cowards who want to hide the kids and lock them down forever. And it works. Stop already.

Meowmee

(5,164 posts)

7. My first day back teaching today(higher level)

Reply to demtenjeep (Original post)

Wed Jan 26, 2022, 02:49 AM

Jan 2022

Had a lot of trouble breathing even in n95. I was a fool to sign up for this. I plan to revert to online only next time and then retire from teaching when we leave the country.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

8. Our kids are there with their kids and their kids' friends

Reply to demtenjeep (Original post)

Wed Jan 26, 2022, 02:51 AM

Jan 2022

also. So far it's been like being sent home with something that's going around at school, which it is.

As for it being here, yes. We were told a long time ago that it was here for good but should eventually turn into one of the seldom lethal illnesses we always have to watch out for. And itm for this one, more vaccines are being developed AND the kids join the larger and larger portion of the population developing at least some immunity.

Hang in. But don't forget to keep an eye out for the next bad variant or other pandemic-potential pathogen to break out. Because there will be one. Hopefully, we'll be able to contain initial outbreaks as this one should have been.