What is the future of Covid?

I think she's so stressed that her jubilation borders on mania.

 

Smallpox, though!

 

Yes, small pox was eradicated but unfortunately there is a tiny possibility of a lab leak or someone thinks it would be a good idea to use it as a bio-weapon.
https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(04)00131-6/fulltext

I was trying to say that vaccination programmes have been seriously disrupted by many factors in recent years.

Our pandemic government started to lose credibility when they were trying hard to get the country fully vaccinated with the hope of eliminating covid again at what ultimately was the last local lockdown in Auckland, just as the omicron variant had emerged. They said "covid was coming for the unvaccinated". Which is wrong, it lowers the risk of serious medical events and death. Mask wearing and other measures lowers the transmission. Unfortunately by then, the antivax movement had got very strong and they didn't want a vaccine or to mask and the general public wanted to be "living" with the virus like the rest of the world. To be able to totally eliminate a virus requires global cooperation and the local means to do it.

 

Yep. It's almost as if epidemic disease such as measles, and the deaths and life-changing impairments associated with it, aren't well within living memory.

 

What I find interesting is that though my parents’ generation with direct memories of WW2 are dying off the idea of WW2 is very significant to my generation, who grew up with stories of the War, watching wartime movies every Sunday that were essentially propaganda films, etc. We tend to have a very distorted view of War ignoring the reality but informed by a fantasy version, which here in the UK is used to feed a false sense that we are somehow special and more deserving than other nations. This myth making has certainly been used by political parties to push their own partisan agendas. It is almost as if my generation believe they have memories of the War which results in a failure to recognise current realities.

I do wonder how we will mythologise Covid through selective and biased story telling. Certainly for many the biggest myth is that the pandemic is over.

 

Crystal clear dear.
Pure poison.

 

Ya would.
Ya probably are.

 

It hasn't, though, that's what I find so astonishing. There are people disabled by measles who aren't even old enough to retire, let alone dead! The little lad who lived in the next yard to us, who was left profoundly deaf and without speech, will be 58 now.

 

Yes. And tell me again how we made a whole new crop of aged over five’s with which to repopulate the world in the time just since Covid began and we apparently all died out taking living memory of events with us?