Are we entering a historical era of perpetual pandemic?

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	Probably
	7 (47%)
	No, we will get past this and return to normal
	6 (40%)
	Nobody knows
	2 (13%)
	Is that a rhetorical question?
	0 (0%)
	I hope so, I've got a great mask wardrobe
	0 (0%)
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[WheelWalker]

1. The Pandemocene?

[madville]

2. Concern about it will continue to fade

Covid is going to be around for years if not decades. There’s nothing practical we can do to eradicate it. I think variants will weaken the next few years and then we just quit caring about it, no more so than the common cold. Once that happens, vaccines and everything else won’t be an issue anymore either.

Some people won’t be able to let it go though no matter what, they are so invested emotionally in just the response to it that it has become their identity.

[VarryOn]

5. Yes. We just have to adapt nt

[MrsCheaplaugh]

3. Yes, and it's overdue.

With infectious diseases Mother Nature keeps human numbers in check. All the medical advancements of the last hundred years have been an anomaly. People now are witnessing the return of the old equilibrium.

[Kath2]

4. Probably,

Probably. It seems worse than ever, there are more trains of it and we allow 60,000 to 70,000 drunk football fans to congregate and slobber over each other every weekend. I never hear about "super spreader events" any more.

[mvd]

6. It might take a while, but eventually it should be out there like..

flu and colds. That’s assuming no new pandemic disease breaks out. I think I will keep masking in the winter months even when things improve.