Remember when someone said it might disappear? Chris Rock made a joke about trump saying "remember when trump said covid would disappear and he got covid?" Funny joke.
Maybe disappear isn't the right word, but the 1918 Spanish Flu is not killing people anymore. Since Covid 19 is not a virus, maybe disappear is the right word in that context. If I said the SARS2 virus might disappear that is different.
Could the SARS2 virus stop killing people some day without any intervention? That happened with the 1918 Spanish Flu. Right?
@Metal-Brain
I think this is a major tipping point for covid, in order to force cells to make more virus, the best way is to not kill the victim but making it a virus factory alive and more or less well.
So many variations, now maybe Mu is worse than Delta, time will tell if even worse variants come out.
Gist of that: Covid will be with us for a long time.
Another one we will probably have to be given yearly booster shots or so.
But of course YOU will have herd immunity, being superman.
@metal-brain saidThe answer is: no. It will not disappear.
Remember when someone said it might disappear? Chris Rock made a joke about trump saying "remember when trump said covid would disappear and he got covid?" Funny joke.
Maybe disappear isn't the right word, but the 1918 Spanish Flu is not killing people anymore. Since Covid 19 is not a virus, maybe disappear is the right word in that context. If I said the SARS2 virus m ...[text shortened]... op killing people some day without any intervention? That happened with the 1918 Spanish Flu. Right?
As the above post makes clear, and is correct, there is every probability sars-2 will end up not killing anyone after a period of time / mutations.
The managing of the consequences in the meantime is what keeps folk busy.
Read an article about Sweden which seems to be doing well at the moment. His comment was that covid is not extremely deadly, but it did expose how sickly our population is.
If you are obese, then covid can get you. Type 2 diabetes, you are at risk with covid. If your diet is terrible, covid can get you.
The message from covid should be to get healthy.
@sonhouse saidCovid is the disease that results from the SARS2 virus. You are basically saying covid will disappear, but the SARS2 virus will not. That is exactly what I said, so you are just repeating what I said whether you were aware of it or not up until you said this:
@Metal-Brain
I think this is a major tipping point for covid, in order to force cells to make more virus, the best way is to not kill the victim but making it a virus factory alive and more or less well.
So many variations, now maybe Mu is worse than Delta, time will tell if even worse variants come out.
Gist of that: Covid will be with us for a long time.
Another ...[text shortened]... o be given yearly booster shots or so.
But of course YOU will have herd immunity, being superman.
"Gist of that: Covid will be with us for a long time."
You contradicted yourself.
You meant to say the SARS2 virus will be with us for a long time. Covid is NOT a virus, so covid will NOT be with us for a long time, the virus will.
Learn to read!
@shavixmir saidCovid will disappear, but the SARS2 virus will not.
The answer is: no. It will not disappear.
As the above post makes clear, and is correct, there is every probability sars-2 will end up not killing anyone after a period of time / mutations.
The managing of the consequences in the meantime is what keeps folk busy.
You need to learn to read too.
@Metal-Brain
Really good to know we can always count on sage advice from one as hyperintelligent as you.
@metal-brain saidThe Spanish flu still kills people; just not very many because we have a pretty strong level of immunity in the population. The future of COVID is another cold/flu variant. It will kill people forever, though hopefully not very many.
Remember when someone said it might disappear? Chris Rock made a joke about trump saying "remember when trump said covid would disappear and he got covid?" Funny joke.
Maybe disappear isn't the right word, but the 1918 Spanish Flu is not killing people anymore. Since Covid 19 is not a virus, maybe disappear is the right word in that context. If I said the SARS2 virus m ...[text shortened]... op killing people some day without any intervention? That happened with the 1918 Spanish Flu. Right?
Vaccines will certainly help decrease the number of deaths until it reaches endemic status (possibly by an order of magnitude).
@metal-brain saidThat's semantics. COVID just means disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. Anyone who has the sniffles from SARS-CoV-2 has COVID. We may not call it that in the future, though.
Covid will disappear, but the SARS2 virus will not.
You need to learn to read too.
@Metal-Brain
Covid19 is NOT from SARS2.
https://www.healthline.com/health/coronavirus-vs-sars#whats-a-coronavirus
Maybe YOU should learn to read.
Covid19 is from SARS-COV-2, that is the name.
@sh76 saidHow do you know? Are people testing for the Spanish flu?
The Spanish flu still kills people; just not very many because we have a pretty strong level of immunity in the population. The future of COVID is another cold/flu variant. It will kill people forever, though hopefully not very many.
Vaccines will certainly help decrease the number of deaths until it reaches endemic status (possibly by an order of magnitude).
How do you know the Spanish flu was not displaced by another virus?
@sonhouse saidYou don't have to be hyperintelligent to read.
@Metal-Brain
Really good to know we can always count on sage advice from one as hyperintelligent as you.
@sonhouse saidThat is exactly what I said.
@Metal-Brain
Covid19 is NOT from SARS2.
https://www.healthline.com/health/coronavirus-vs-sars#whats-a-coronavirus
Maybe YOU should learn to read.
Covid19 is from SARS-COV-2, that is the name.
Learn to read!
@sh76 saidIf we're running with the idea that "not very many" is 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually, then we also need to factor in the role of the flu vaccine in keeping those numbers low. Despite low rates of vaccination, the estimate is that flu vaccines prevent ~8,000 deaths and 100,000 hospitalizations every year.
The Spanish flu still kills people; just not very many because we have a pretty strong level of immunity in the population. The future of COVID is another cold/flu variant. It will kill people forever, though hopefully not very many.
Vaccines will certainly help decrease the number of deaths until it reaches endemic status (possibly by an order of magnitude).
@wildgrass saidThe flu is not a problem. Here is an excerpt from the link below:
If we're running with the idea that "not very many" is 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually, then we also need to factor in the role of the flu vaccine in keeping those numbers low. Despite low rates of vaccination, the estimate is that flu vaccines prevent ~8,000 deaths and 100,000 hospitalizations every year.
"Flu has virtually disappeared from the U.S., with reports coming in at far lower levels than anything seen in decades.
Another possible explanation: The coronavirus has essentially muscled aside flu and other bugs that are more common in the fall and winter. Scientists don’t fully understand the mechanism behind that, but it would be consistent with patterns seen when certain flu strains predominate over others, said Dr. Arnold Monto, a flu expert at the University of Michigan."
https://apnews.com/article/flu-has-disappeared-us-pandemic-2145d999319b53d8a32a829a324f398d