"Covid will be here forever"

[Frozenintime]

On Sky news online. Sorry, I couldn't work out how to post the link.
AIBU to think WTF?!

*Through a combination of highly effective vaccines which are now being rolled out at massive scale (400k people per day & rising fast), and people who have had the disease producing natural antibodies, we will achieve herd immunity and life will eventually get back to normal. That’s how these work. Worst case scenario : the virus mutates and scientists have to adjust the vaccines, and we all need boosters. Perfectly doable .

Ignore the doom-mongers. smile*

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Yeah, will always be about, a bit like Polio, people will be vaccinated, the vaccine will give protection against the worst effects of the disease, at some point all the people saying they don’t want the vaccine will probably end up having it

It’s not surprising to me I had thought this anyway

My guess is the vaccine will keep being updated yearly like the flu vaccine to keep it under control but it won't just vanish.

Almost all diseases are here to stay, we just vaccinate against them. Ebola, Polio, Typhoid, TB, even the Bubonic plague is still around. Some countries still get the odd outbreak of the plague today. It will be here forever but it won't stay at pandemic level.

We will gradually vaccinate it into submission and develop new ways to treat it and it will be much the same as any other virus that used to kill millions.

I believe there is a Coronavirus board for threads like this to be posted, where people who want to do nothing else but read about worst case, doom mongering scenarios can do so to their heart's content.

I mean, we have only ever eradicated one human virus out of the thousands that exist, so of course it isn't going to go away? We've been trying to eradicate polio for 50 years...

It'll be here forever but a year or two from now nce the vaccination programme is well-established, it'll be part of the usual round of seasonal viruses and winter will be known as covid and flu season rather than flu season. It'll be handled the same way flu is handled, the vulnerable will be offered a yearly covid jab alongside their flu jab, those who don't qualify for it free will be able to buy it for a tenner or less from Boots/Asda/Tesco, etc like they do their flu jab, and those who don't want a jab won't get a jab. The vaccines will continue to be tweaked and within a couple of years it'll be a combi-vaccine with flu and covid in one syringe. The NHS won't be any more overwhelmed than it would be during a normal flu season so there'll be no isolating, no social distancing, no masks, etc. It'll probably be the case that people who are unwell are asked not to visit vulnerable locations (e.g., visiting people in hospital or in care homes) but that was the case pre-covid anyway.

There’s some really stressed people at the moment who show their nasty side on here. It will always be here because it a virus and the people on here screaming to have the thread moved to ‘Covid’ delusionally don’t understand that we can’t opt out of this - it is here to stay. Ironically many of those who don’t want to know will be comfortably at home.

And as science marches on and learns more about it there will be more treatments available and outcomes will improve so that even those who have very serious symptoms will have a greater chance of recovery.

Errr yes - it will be - we were told this months ago. What will happen is we will hopefully control it to some degree.

Yes it will be like the flu, you can be vaccinated but still fatal to some.

@VladimirCutiePutiPie

There’s some really stressed people at the moment who show their nasty side on here. It will always be here because it a virus and the people on here screaming to have the thread moved to ‘Covid’ delusionally don’t understand that we can’t opt out of this - it is here to stay. Ironically many of those who don’t want to know will be comfortably at home.

Gosh, who is 'screaming' to have the thread moved? I commented that it should be moved to the Corona board because it is utterly tedious to read thread upon thread about fucking covid in AIBU. 'AIBU to be worried about covid?' FFS, bore off to the covid board and whip yourself into a frenzy about it as much as you like. Leave AIBU for more pressing issues such as a vegan wanting to have squirrels killed, arsehole neighbours and nightmare MILs.

I wish we could have a Coronavirus AIBU topic, keep this one for proper stuff like cat poo in the garden/shoes on or off in the house etc.

Well we could eradicate malaria but we aren't going to. There is no financial incentive.

Except for smallpox, no virus has been fully eradicated. But we manage in most cases to control them.

PLEASE can people post threads like these on the covid board? There are plenty of people who have hidden that board for the sake of their MH and it isn't really fair on them seeing thread titles like this.

the people on here screaming to have the thread moved to ‘Covid’ delusionally don’t understand that we can’t opt out of this - it is here to stay.

Actually most of us do know that because we aren't stupid, I just don't want to spend every moment on MN reading about it. How is that helpful?

Finally I hear this thought somewhere apart from my own head. It will be here forever. With vaccines, it will become manageable but endemic. We all just need to crack on once the vulnerable are vaccinated.

I really think there is a mistaken belief that those of us who don't want to constantly read threads like these are either ostrich pollyannas in denial about about the seriousness of the situation OR complete covid deniers.

Neither is even close to being true in my case. I consider myself very well informed about covid, but I get my information from the scientists and not from random speculation on MN. There is not a single scientist who has said anything like the kind of stuff I see being spouted on here. Some people seem determined to completely misinterpret absolutely everything. So "covid here to stay" means "lockdown forever".

@ChimaeraEgg

I really think there is a mistaken belief that those of us who don't want to constantly read threads like these are either ostrich pollyannas in denial about about the seriousness of the situation OR complete covid deniers.

Neither is even close to being true in my case. I consider myself very well informed about covid, but I get my information from the scientists and not from random speculation on MN. There is not a single scientist who has said anything like the kind of stuff I see being spouted on here. Some people seem determined to completely misinterpret absolutely everything. So "covid here to stay" means "lockdown forever".

I feel the same. Every single thought anybody has on Covid seems to end up as a thread on MN complete with alarming thread title.

It's the title that gets me more than anything else because you can't avoid it! Even if you don't read the thread the title alone will be triggering for a lot of people.

I'm sensitive to this because I work in MH and the anxiety I'm seeing at the moment is beyond the pale, the absolute worst I've seen it in the ten years I've been doing the job.

Unfortunately my ds6 walked into the room and only heard that line of the briefing...

Had to explain to him all of this - that it wouldn’t mean lockdowns forever etc - but it was worrying for him.

Vaccines and better treatments developed over time, plus people producing natural antibodies, will bring it down to the level of a normal flu though.

This is not news.

No shit op! 😂 of course it will - that’s why we need vaccinations! Like the flu, like measles etc - look what happens we almost had measles eradicated then the anti vaxers come along and measles makes a come back!

Don’t worry though we will soon forget about Covid when climate change ramps up or the next new virus comes along !!

@AgeLikeWine

Yes, Covid 19 will be with us forever. That’s how these things work.

BUT

Through a combination of highly effective vaccines which are now being rolled out at massive scale (400k people per day & rising fast), and people who have had the disease producing natural antibodies, we will achieve herd immunity and life will eventually get back to normal. That’s how these work. Worst case scenario : the virus mutates and scientists have to adjust the vaccines, and we all need boosters. Perfectly doable .

Ignore the doom-mongers.

I love your post *@AgeLikeWine