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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!

OP posts:
Isthatthebestyoucando · 23/12/2021 16:12

Book that holiday...... take the insurance.

I hope you are right.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 23/12/2021 16:14

Let's hope so because just about everyone I know either has it or has cancelled their planned family Christmas . The only reason we're ok so far is because we're pretty much isolating as dh needs to stay healthy at the moment.

Littleoakhorn · 23/12/2021 16:17

It’s omicron, not omicrom.

Pandemics typically last a few years and although omicron is less severe it is so much more contagious that the effects are going to be similar at a population level. For as long as vaccines are not sufficiently available in parts of the world, we are going to be waiting for global immunity/ mutation into something mild.

Brackenandbramble · 23/12/2021 16:20

I hope so but the daily deaths and intensive care numbers haven't decreased here over the last while so as far as I can see nothing has changed here to make me too optimistic. Fingers crossed though!

AnotherOneWithNoGoodName · 23/12/2021 16:21

I hope so! Everything crossed.

Suzanne999 · 23/12/2021 16:24

I don’t think we can start thinking this way until far more of the world is vaccinated. While we are pleased thousands are being booster jabbed each day in the UK and other first world countries, in Africa only a small percentage of the populations have had a first jab. Where Covid can get a foot in it can mutate into something more deadly and be on the move around the world in days.
We have to help vaccinate the world to see the back of it.

Topseyt · 23/12/2021 16:28

We can hope that this is the start of it dying down. No guarantees.

Sally090807 · 23/12/2021 16:57

I am unvaccinated because I have a huge phobia of needles, when I gave birth after 24 hours in labour I’d lost so much blood they wanted to give me a transfusion. I was so torn down below and when two nurses came in one said to me, this is a trainee, she will be stitching you up with my supervision. I was sucking on gas and air but the pain was worse than the labour. Since then I’ve not had a relationship or sex for 19 years as I just can’t face anyone touching me below. Today I’ve tested positive and I don’t feel good. Christmas won’t we happening in my house as I will need to isolate. I feel I’ve let my two teens down and myself but please don’t be so harsh on everyone who hasn’t been vaccinated.
We don’t all think the earth is flat or we are being injected with microchips. Some of us are truly traumatised by a past experience.

Angrymum22 · 23/12/2021 17:08

I’m with you op. Very optimistic. I’ve survived Covid twice (mild infection and just finished treatment for breast cancer so on a totally selfish level I no longer give a shit about everyone else. They can take their chances I just want to get on with real life again. We will never be able to save everyone and the sooner we accept that fact the better.

sst1234 · 23/12/2021 17:08

OP, too many people will not allow it to end because they like the hysterics and the restrictions too much. Watch then fight on and tell you that we are no where near the end of pandemic and it ends only when the virus suffers the same fate as the dinosaurs.

sst1234 · 23/12/2021 17:09

@Suzanne999

I don’t think we can start thinking this way until far more of the world is vaccinated. While we are pleased thousands are being booster jabbed each day in the UK and other first world countries, in Africa only a small percentage of the populations have had a first jab. Where Covid can get a foot in it can mutate into something more deadly and be on the move around the world in days. We have to help vaccinate the world to see the back of it.
Is most of the world vaccinated against the flu?
Angrymum22 · 23/12/2021 17:14

I’m fine with altruism when so many people won’t even help themselves. We have sacrificed so much for the sake of a single disease that has such a low mortality rate. I know all the arguments but 2 yrs in we are still in the same position, collectively balancing on a cliff edge.

Angrymum22 · 23/12/2021 17:18

That should say - done with altruism

RuggerHug · 23/12/2021 17:26

This may come as a shock sst1234, but it's not the flu. Hth.

MrsLargeEmbodied · 23/12/2021 17:38

we need the world vaccinated
that is the only answer

MichaelAndEagle · 23/12/2021 17:42

@ANameChangeAgain

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.
I think of what you've described as 'the end' to be honest.
baroqueandblue · 23/12/2021 17:42

Was the world vaccinated against Spanish flu?

VikingOnTheFridge · 23/12/2021 17:42

@sst1234

OP, too many people will not allow it to end because they like the hysterics and the restrictions too much. Watch then fight on and tell you that we are no where near the end of pandemic and it ends only when the virus suffers the same fate as the dinosaurs.
I think we're starting to see the tide turn in this respect though. Public support for restrictions is lower than it was, the anger feels more palpable.
RuggerHug · 23/12/2021 17:47

@baroqueandblue

Was the world vaccinated against Spanish flu?
No baroqueandblue because it wasn't possible so it killed more people. What we're trying to avoid now, hth
RealBecca · 23/12/2021 17:57

@WouldIBeATwat yes, they did. They reported something like 3 out of 4 front line healthcare staff in Africa have not had a first jab. Europe has greater access and take up of vaccines (although london has a low rate) so pockets will exist for mutations.

Which id assume may not always be milder (would love a link to that says otherwise)

Whilst we're all running around getting boosters the virus has space to migrate in largely unvaccinated areas.

But the UK will probably be ok...Hmm

RealBecca · 23/12/2021 18:00

@Suzanne999

www.nature.com/articles/d41591-021-00073-x

Theres low access but also low take up at play.

AdoptDontShop · 23/12/2021 18:12

I don’t think Covid will ever be “over” on Mumsnet.
They will still be taking lateral flows in 2050 🤣

Scrabblecrabapple · 23/12/2021 18:16

I remember an article at the beginning saying that the most likely path would be mutation to very mild but easily transmissible, like a cold. As viruses don’t want their host to die they just want to infect so it makes sense. We would then have it forever but it will be like other seasonal cold.
I really hope it is true.

baroqueandblue · 23/12/2021 18:20

@RuggerHug I was only asking, there's no need to patronise me. Your attitude is rotten.

RuggerHug · 23/12/2021 18:27

[quote baroqueandblue]@RuggerHug I was only asking, there's no need to patronise me. Your attitude is rotten.[/quote]
Sorry baroque. I've been listening to that and it's just a flu for nearly 2 years from people who think they're being original/clever and it gets wearing. Shouldn't have been short with replying, sorry.