An Interesting "Discussion"... Transitioning From Pandemic To Endemic

[TrappedinCalifornia]

I thought this was an interesting "discussion"... How do we transition from pandemic to endemic conditions?

It's a bit long-ish and there's not a whole lot we haven't already discussed via various threads, but I find it... interesting... that they are, once again, finally willing to openly discuss endemicity. It's been a topic which keeps getting 'buried' in favor of the narrative regarding herd immunity via vaccination.

published a viewpoint in the Journal of the American Medical Association laying out four potential COVID-19 endgame scenarios: eradication, elimination, cohabitation or conflagration...

Dr. Richard Martinello, medical director for infection prevention for Yale New Haven Health, said earlier this month with a laugh, "It'd be great to see it disappear. Of course, I don't think that's going to happen."

"For the rest of our lives, and our kids' lives, there's always going to be COVID," he said, "but generally what I would suspect is the severity of disease is going to become less, and it's going to become less because people are developing immunity, from vaccination and from infection."...

Yonatan Grad, a professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said in a Q&A in August that because viruses spread when there are enough susceptible people and enough contact among them, "it's hard to anticipate what the timeline will be for the expected shift of COVID-19 to endemicity."...

[sd_shooter]

It's already endemic. Sweden, Norway and Denmark have stopped all actions and are fully open.

The world could open up fully today and no one would notice that we ever had such a thing as covid. It's only the daily brainwashing and government misdirection that's keeping this alive.

Thankfully I live in a truly free state and we've been open since May. No bodies in the street, no mass graves. Still a handful of brainwashed maskholes walking around but other than that there's no evidence of a virus.

[DolphinFan]

[OlderThanDirt]

COVID-19 antibodies have been found in multiple non-human species. Zoos are vaccinating many of their animals. So, in this case, herd immunity cannot be achieved even if every human gets vaccinated. Like hemorrhoids, COVID is here to stay.

[stormvet]

Never was a pandemic, it’s a scamdemic.

[TrappedinCalifornia]

COVID-19 antibodies have been found in multiple non-human species. Zoos are vaccinating many of their animals. So, in this case, herd immunity cannot be achieved even if every human gets vaccinated. Like hemorrhoids, COVID is here to stay.

Exactly. I've been saying from the beginning that herd immunity was likely unattainable with this type of virus and for several months that endemicity would be the most likely outcome after all the machinations we've gone through, including that the co-called 'vaccines' not preventing infection/transmission on a mass, rather than a 'rare,' level. As I noted in the OP, however, that discussion has been buried as TPTB have pushed herd immunity via vaccination.

What's interesting is that, for one of the very few times, a media outlet is now openly talking about ending the 'pandemic' status and seguing into 'endemic' mode. In doing so, the 'emergency' would be officially 'over' without a good deal of hyperbole and stretching of credulity beyond what has already occurred. With the 'emergency' over, the emergency powers being used to ram much of what they are doing through (from mandates to funding packages) comes to an end.

In a very real sense, it is, at a pragmatic level, about the only, effective way to get the economy (and society) going again by forcing people to take jobs again, getting the supply chain churning again, etc. Irish Democracy will only take things so far and, as we are discovering, the costs/potential costs for many are not tolerable; meaning that the 'enforcement' angle is still too easy, making manipulation a continuing tool.

The point I see in the article is that even some in the media are now acknowledging that it is time to move on, end the games, and adjust our thinking in terms of coming to grips with the idea that eradication/elimination is likely impossible (which I've said from the beginning), that conflagration is something, largely, outside our control as it depends on variants, making it most likely (as I've said for months) that cohabitation is the inevitable outcome.