Covid is ending in March

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I will put my neck on line and say that covid will be over by 27th of March 2022.

@milly74

it will never be over as it is a controlling mechanism - our rights, civil liberties and freedoms can be snatched away using covid laws and to "protect the NHS" ad infinitum

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@RhubarbCustardy

No way. There's already reports of a major surge predicted for February.

Oh dear. Right. Source please?

There will be no epidemiological end to Covid - just a social one. It will end when society decides to live with it.

@AlecTrevelyan006

There will be no epidemiological end to Covid - just a social one. It will end when society decides to live with it.

This. What you are noticing now is not the effects of the disease which are now indistinguishable from seasonal respiratory viruses we have always had. It is the restrictions and the reporting that constitute the pandemic. End the restrictions and media coverage of cases and you end it all. The vaccine offers short term protection only and carries risk so in future it will be offered to high risk people going into winter, maybe once in September once in Jan. Giving it to millions of low risk teenagers and 20/30 year olds without valid informed consent was a massive mistake and it will be interesting to see how/if the political and medical establishment back away or if they double down.

Excellent news, that’s the day of my 50th birthday.

Anal leakage may be problematic on 3rd April in the Manchester area. Never trust a fart after mile 20...

Last year in the early days of vaccination, the severity of restrictions reduced on 29th March and 12th April. The first lockdown began 23rd March 2020. I think that by that anniversary, the government will be keen to reduce domestic restrictions and much of the policy regarding testing and isolation.

Isolation is the biggest problem right now.

Testing is useful for hospital care, but we are rapidly reaching a point where we don't need to know if a minor illness doing a bloody good impression of a cold is a cold or covid.

Europe seems to be far slower at accepting "living with Covid" and I think international policies on travel are unlikely to bugger off in 2022, but will be easier and less volatile than 2021.

I think it’s looking promising

Who could forget the great anal leakage pandemic?