When do you think will we get rid of Covid19, being honest?

[John_Galt]

Covid -19 will never “be gone”. It will become a seasonal issue like the flu. It will mutate ever year like the flu.
There isn’t just one flu shot and then the problem disappears. Every year is a new strain of the flu, thats why there is a yearly flu shot. Covid 19 is no different. we already seeing it mutate in the UK.
The more important question is when “if ever” will politicians stop using this “crisis” to take away people’s civil liberties? In my opinion the answer is never! People don’t just hand power back, once you give it to them. So then the question becomes will people eventually stand up for their rights and freedoms or will they just lay down and beg the government to save them!
Sadly i’m pretty sure it will be the second.

[Anonymous]

No. The flu and the common cold are also types of coronavirus, Covid19 is just another strain. We haven't got rid of the cold and the flu because they mutate too much, and we don't get rid of coronavirus either for the same reason.

However, we will build up an immunity to it, either through contracting and fighting off the virus or though the vaccine. I won't be taking the vaccine because I've already had it, and young healthy people are mostly fine.

New viruses always kill a lot of people with weak immune systems which aren't quick enough to adapt, that's the reason for the high initial death count.

Eventually it will be just another virus we're likely to catch in the winter and most people will be fine. Even if at the beginning it wasn't "just the flu" it will become "just the flu".

[menina]

I agree with you, many people are not taking this seriously then they complain about not having "freedom" and having to wear a mask.
In a optimistic scenario I would say in 2022, in a more realistic one I would say in 2023.
This is not going to end until people start being more responsible, less paranoid (meaning believing in conspiracy theories about the masks, the vaccines, the governments etc...) and stop being selfish.

[nevernevernever]

I don't know if we'll ever truly get rid of it, people still die from the bubonic plague every year, and I really don't know when things will go back to normal. If the vaccine works it might be as soon as a few years. if not... we might be raising our children in a very different world

[jshm2]

We still haven't got rid of the flu, polio or cold!

The problem with CV19 is not simply the virus itself, but it's latency and enabling capabilities to make pre-existing conditions worse.

Thus it will never "go away". But will mutate into something less capable, just like the Spanish flu did. We still lose a lot of people to flu strains around the world each year. But what makes things tricky is that now we have CV19 and antibiotics are useless against it.

[DCooper]

If it mutates very slowly like the polio virus, maybe it'll be wiped out eventually, despite the complete ineptitude of many states' efforts to distribute vaccine before it goes bad.
If it proves to mutate more like the flu virii, then we'll never get rid of it. It'll just be folded into the seasonal flu vaccine, designed ahead of time based on an educated guess at which strains will be going around any given flu season.

[kingofthellamas]

It depends on what you mean by git rid of it. The virus will always exits, but our immune system will evolve to cope with it better. In the meantime vaccines and treatments will improve too.
So, no we won't ever get rid of it, but we will find ways to minimize transmission and minimize its impact should you contract it.

[COMMODOREII]

We will never get rid of it. Its always around us. When will we get immunity? When everyone is inoculated with the vaccine and we start to build immunity towards just like any other virus. Over time it will become common place like the flu or the common cold.

[DWornock]

It is just a minor virus that is worse than the common cold but not as bad as the flu. Young people are not even affected. Most of the people that have been reported as died from the virus had other health issues and 85% died with the virus; not from the virus. Even that may be exaggerated because per the CDC's website, the total number of people that died is almost identical to the total number of people that died in 2017 long before the virus existed.

[Bee-Hatch]

It's never going away. What will happen is folk will eventually become mostly immune. The Cold is a group of viruses that make people poorly. There's other variations of coronavirus that cause the cold.

[Anonymous]

If everyone that was truly irresponsible got it, this would all end a whole lot quicker. I don't wear a mask because I already had it. I had it over a year ago. I haven't gotten it since. This whole thing is a scam. People get sick all the time. Some of us live life like normal, visit our neighbors, share dinner, talk, and enjoy life.

[JosyJosy]

If I look at people complaining about having to wear a mask already and the amount of hidden gatherings people organize despite it being dangerous, I'd think it'd be another year

[ArrowheadSW]

Hard to say when we will be rid of it, but if we get over half of the population vaccinated by year end, it will be greatly diminished by 2022.

[JustJen]

Probably never. However, it will weaken and become just another seasonal flu virus. That's what happens to pandemic flu viruses over time.

[Andres77]

As soon as the Chinese government feels we've become docile enough and they stop purposefully spreading it.

[TheFlak38]

Never. It was the golden chance the Left needed to impose more control to the people. The goal is to wipe out the middle class and have a poor majority begging for some change from the rich minority.

[josephinelcajon]

Sadly never its here to stay constantly mutating while we chase the mutation always one step ahead!

[bowenw]

I suspect it will be under control late this year once the majority of people have been vaccinated.

[Shamalien]

I do take shit seriously, that's why I don't wear a mask and gather in large numbers whenever possible.

You need to stop listening to propaganda

[Blaine999]

I wish I knew luv, I do however know that the black death lasted 7 years and claimed 200 million lives in just 4 years. Here's hoping Covid isn't trying to outdo to that particular plague

[Anonymous]

It won't. If we haven't gotten rid of the flu, we won't get rid of this.

[joeldalton]

bahaha. No fucking way this goes on three more years. You're out of your mind. We need 70% of the population with antibodies to achieve herd immunity. We're at roughly 10% including "cases" and vaccine distribution to date.

[Be4rdy]

If we can't get rid of the flu were never getting "rid" of this

[KostasKouvalis]

Never. It'll be around like the flu. We'll have to get vaccinated every year.
I don't think things will return to normal for at least a decade.