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AIBU to think we’re seeing the end of covid?

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EIIa · 23/12/2021 13:30

Don’t know if I am just overly excited but .... if omnicrom is mild then surely we’re reaching the beginning of the end?

If the virus has mutated to be milder surely we can have some hope that life will start to return to normal next year?

I didn’t post this on the coronavirus board because I just want a response from your average poster rather than anybody who is overly concerned - no offence to anybody.

But... surely this is it?

Yabu- you’re being very presumptuous
Yanbu - I agree - book that Easter holiday!

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JemimaPyjamas · 23/12/2021 13:32

I am keeping everything crossed that it will be.

I have a friend who has it at the moment, he had two days of feeling very flulike but the rest of the time he’s just felt as if he had a horrible cold. He tested positive on Sunday and now feels as if he is out the woods.

This is a contrast to other people I know who have had it previously. Obviously it can affect different people in different ways, but it does look a lot more promising than it has for awhile.

Hopefully it will be Covid’s last hurrah!

And there’s nothing wrong with being optimistic!

ANameChangeAgain · 23/12/2021 13:33

I think we are seeing the beginning of the new seasonal virus. We'll all still need annual vaccines and it'll be a dilute version of what we are seeing now, but its not the end.

TheDrWillSeeYouNow · 23/12/2021 13:33

We are definitely on the path out of the woods now.

Ginisatonic · 23/12/2021 13:33

YABU because it can mutate again. We also don’t yet know what percentage of the cases will result in hospital stays. Even if it’s a small percentage - a small percentage of a huge number of cases is a lot.
I really hope it is the end but it’s too early to say.

DramaAlpaca · 23/12/2021 13:34

I really hope so.

TheReluctantPhoenix · 23/12/2021 13:37

Very cautiously optimistic but I would only book an Easter holiday on a refundable basis.

milly74 · 23/12/2021 13:43

Yes but now we need to really look at this as SAGE have created or attempted to create mass panic. time SAGE was disbanded

Youdoyoutoday · 23/12/2021 13:45

I hope so!

BovrilonToast · 23/12/2021 13:46

I agree. If you look at what happened with Spanish flu (which is still in circulation now) it mutated in to a milder virus. Finger crossed it will be the same with this one.

Takemine · 23/12/2021 13:48

That would be fast work indeed and a sign we were rubbish at flattening the peak.

Depends if having this gives immunity to the next variant, how hospitals cope etc

Mercurial123 · 23/12/2021 13:48

The Economist wrote a few weeks ago, that they expect it to fade out by September 2022. Hopefully, that does happen.

WouldIBeATwat · 23/12/2021 13:49

Didn’t the WHO report yesterday that our approach to boosters will prolong the pandemic?

Lovemusic33 · 23/12/2021 13:52

I was thinking/hoping the same OP, if omicron becomes the main variant then delta should disappear? Omicron seems to be similar to a bad cold and isn’t effecting people the same as delta (so it seems). But how do we know they won’t be another variant that is more deadly after this one?

I remain hopeful but I’m not getting my hopes up.

CremeEggThief · 23/12/2021 13:53

Erm... let's get most of January out of the way first!

Bavarois · 23/12/2021 13:56

It's far too soon to tell. But YANBU to hope the worst is over.

Toddlerteaplease · 23/12/2021 14:05

I've been saying this since it was found to be milder. It is the beog the end.

Toddlerteaplease · 23/12/2021 14:06

Beginning

EvilPea · 23/12/2021 14:09

If the delta variant doesn’t give you immunity against omicron.
Does omicron against delta?
Or are they completely splitting?

RoyalFamilyFan · 23/12/2021 14:24

YABU but I am going to book an Easter holiday anyway.

Somethingsnappy · 23/12/2021 15:16

I think you may be right. It has a higher R rate now, so more contagious. Am I right in thinking that usually, the more contagious a virus is, the milder it is?

Takemine · 23/12/2021 15:57

Am I right in thinking that usually, the more contagious a virus is, the milder it is

It depends how long you have to be infectious before symptoms really. If you're immediately too ill to socialise, bad news for transmission. If there's a window of time before you're too sick to go out when you can easily spread the thing, it's unconnected. It may eventually kill that original host or it may not-makes no odds to the virus

Takemine · 23/12/2021 16:00

And here we do unfortunately have that window, even testing doesn't really close it. And higher transmission causes more deaths and disruption than greater severity. Also high transmission increases probability of further mutations. So easy to see why no one knowledgeable is dancing a jig but at the same time, could have been worse, could have been worse...

SmallElephant · 23/12/2021 16:00

I agree OP! Fingers crossed!

RuggerHug · 23/12/2021 16:09

Vaccination needs to be world wide and that's nowhere near done.

Cherryblossoms85 · 23/12/2021 16:10

I hope so, but the way some people carry on they appear to be planning to keep testing for the rest of their lives!