We are going to have to live with covid

[Cloudsurfing]

Thank goodness the government have acknowledged this. Hancock says it will become a virus we live with, like flu. Once the vaccine and treatments have done their job of bringing down hospitalisation, and cases are under control, we will get on with everything again this year.

We aren’t going for zero covid, and all the doomers who say we will be like this for years are most likely wrong!

I can't believe some people think that social distancing and lockdowns could possibly be the 'new normal' as if neither of these things bring huge economic cost which is totally unsustainable.

@saleboat I sincerely hope it doesn't but I expect social distancing even its 1 metre to last for a while and possibly face masks. Definitely not furlough, it's not sustainable.
Low key form of control things such as arrows on the floors one way systems may stay around for a while.

Quite a good article on this today..

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55985916

@DownstairsMixUp

Also hope people stop downplaying flu! There's some very highly transmissible strains of flu, why do you think it's a yearly vaccine that's tweaked? Just like you can get people with covid and no symptoms, you can also get people who have carry the flu with no symptoms and some who die. The only reason we've not been able to ever see some of these forms of influenza take off is because quite thankfully, we've had quite a good control over it for a while. Covid will be the same, expect variants, expect yearly jabs, the jabs will be tweaked when needed. Every so often the dm will post a scary headline about a new variant to get some clicks. Really starting to think some people have loved lockdown and don't want it to end.

In your opinion, do you think covid could be somewhat replacing flu? I think there is a thread on here[will go find and read it sometime] saying that flu worldwide is down 98%?

And if it does replace it, then the NHS could cope next winter? Especially now there are vaccines?