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

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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!

viruses don’t want their host to die they just want to infect so it makes sense.

Sigh

Viruses don't care if you die provided there's a window where you're out and about while infectious. If the illness progression is to die later, the virus is fine with that provided it's had lots of opportunities earlier. With Covid there is a window like that so severity of illness doesn't compromise its survival. It is chance that Omicron is milder.

I think so too. But I thought this last year too. Waaaa

@Mercurial123

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

Fuck, that's ages away

Are you Jacob Rees mogg? You’re out of your tiny mind.

I'm cautiously optimistic.
I caught Omicron last week (14th) tested positive less than 36 hours later. A group of us attending a central London party all did.
I had a headache for a day. Bit tired a few days after. I've had much worse colds
Out of the four of us I've been talking to:
Me: 2 vaccines and a booster
Another: 2 vaccines
Another: one vaccine
Another: no vaccines

All of us had mild symptoms. Isolation drive us bonkers but we did it. I am now testing negative.

It is highly infectious. My son caught it off me and tested positive within 24 hours. He felt a bit ropey on the first day only. He's ten and unvaccinated.

I'm wondering whether Corona has decided on quantity v quality so to speak

I agree with you OP. I think that this milder contagious form will give many people some natural immunity across the Covid virus as a whole . In this way it will help us live with it in the long term.
I have just booked flights to Europe for Feb half term.

I hope so, I lost 2 family members to Covid in the first wave of it. The newer variant seems to be much milder, seems like everyone is coming down with it now and not needing hospitalisation.
However, I don’t think we can predict how things will go so remaining cautious.

@RuggerHug

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

You’re right, it’s more like a cold. www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59768366

I’m optimistic but it’s too early to say we’ve beaten this because of vaccines. They’re now saying the booster protection against Omicron wanes after 10 weeks. We can’t vaccinate everyone every 10 weeks. So yes, hopefully any new variants will prove to be mild and something we can deal with using our own immunity, like normal colds and flu. But if there are difficult variants coming then I’m not sure what solution we could come up with next…

Even colds kill people and even if you think people with underlying illnesses don't count or aren't important, they'll still be affected. It's only healthy and able people I see cheering, as they all do after lockdowns end

YANBU

I hope so, I’m a very optimistic person and dd has reminded me I’ve predicted the end of the pandemic several times already and yet here we still are, but it can’t last forever, nothing ever does. Everything crossed. I have Easter and June holidays booked, the Easter one was originally booked for Aug 21 in November 2019..

Yeah let's just calm down, shall we. All this running around shouting about how mild it is is very unhelpful at the moment. IF it is 50-70% less likely to make you require hospital but transmits at the rate we have been seeing up until this point, we really have nothing to celebrate but quite the opposite.

I have covid and No symptoms not one, same with test of family. We were just saying the same as you. Maybe this is the end. We all have not one symptom between us.

PLEASE don't build my hopes up like this.

I hope you're right though!

I still feel really hopeful

I thought that viruses start to mutate if they’re being incubated for a long time ie if people are struggling to fight the off? Please correct me if I’m wrong!

@Sally090807

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.

That's horrible that happened to you, I'm so sorry. Hope your covid experience is mild and you feel better very soon.

@Somethingsnappy

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?

No unfortunately.