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2. Typhoid, malaria, Dengue Fever and Ebola have been with us for a long time. (just to name

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Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:19 PM

Feb 2021

a few) I said last February that we can survive this. I see no reason to modify that statement.

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Doctors warn that Covid will become endemic and people need to learn to live with it [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2021 OP

More good news. :( Irish_Dem Feb 2021 #1

Typhoid, malaria, Dengue Fever and Ebola have been with us for a long time. (just to name abqtommy Feb 2021 #2

SARS and MERS, to mention two, will take another run at us one day soon. Blue_true Feb 2021 #15

Watched Modern Marvels program today dweller Feb 2021 #3

It hasn't ever completely gone away. llmart Feb 2021 #12

Yes, but we won't be living in nightmare pandemic mode forever. Initech Feb 2021 #4

Not smallpox. Eradicated in 77/79. nt Maru Kitteh Feb 2021 #17

Yeah but didn't that circulate among anti-vaxxers for a while? Initech Feb 2021 #19

No. It's eradicated. Gone. Exists only in two Maru Kitteh Feb 2021 #21

Good! Initech Feb 2021 #23

I would happily volunteer to dig a hole until my shovel Maru Kitteh Feb 2021 #26

Also, smallpox had a 30% mortality rate. THIRTY PERCENT. You would Maru Kitteh Feb 2021 #22

With intentional inoculation that toll dropped to about 5%. NutmegYankee Feb 2021 #30

Just one more reason to get your CV19 vax! Maru Kitteh Feb 2021 #32

It was 2 decades later that cowpox was recognized as a way to prevent smallpox. NutmegYankee Feb 2021 #34

I think that was measles AwakeAtLast Feb 2021 #37

The flu is and we get a shot every year and live with it gollygee Feb 2021 #5

You are exactly right, my dear gollygee! Thank you for stating it so clearly. ♥ CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2021 #6

Yes everyone is saying that we'll have to get booster shots every year. Initech Feb 2021 #8

No biggie shanti Feb 2021 #35

Fauci and others have been saying this for months Quixote1818 Feb 2021 #7

Yeah exactly. Initech Feb 2021 #11

I have to say, it was nice not getting a cold or flu or anything this past year Quixote1818 Feb 2021 #41

There has not been a case of smallpox in over 40 yrs womanofthehills Feb 2021 #42

Yeah I'll correct that. Initech Feb 2021 #43

That's why the strategy must be two-fold, vaccines and treatments. WarGamer Feb 2021 #9

I'm going to permenently sew a mask on my face with a Singer sewing machine. magicarpet Feb 2021 #10

Comes as no surprise. Blue_true Feb 2021 #13

WORDspectively... Endemic vs Epidemic vs Pandemic.... TigressDem Feb 2021 #14

I believe that scientists are using endemic in this case to say that human Blue_true Feb 2021 #16

What is worrisome about Covid is the way it keeps mutating. TigressDem Feb 2021 #18

Yes, Trump deserves a jail cell for his handling of SARS-COV-2. Blue_true Feb 2021 #20

Totally. TigressDem Feb 2021 #24

We have a lot of really stupid people in this country. Blue_true Feb 2021 #25

Because that is the way SOME leaders like to keep Sheeple. TigressDem Feb 2021 #28

Any smart rich person would be working hard to help address Blue_true Feb 2021 #33

Smart and Rich don't always go together because GREED keeps them apart. TigressDem Feb 2021 #36

You are right about rich and smart often not going together. Blue_true Feb 2021 #38

There will be new and more effective vaccines to control it and its mutations Wicked Blue Feb 2021 #27

But there are so many fools now who won't get vaccinated. milestogo Feb 2021 #29

We need laws mandating the vaccine unless there is a medical exemption. Wicked Blue Feb 2021 #31

Question. Do you remember if any laws on vaccination existed Blue_true Feb 2021 #39

I could not work in my college dining hall without proof that I was tuberculosis-free Wicked Blue Feb 2021 #40