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Calculating

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6. This is literally never going away

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Thu Aug 5, 2021, 03:05 PM

Aug 2021

The best case scenario is that through vaccines, natural immunity, and people who are highly susceptible to covid dying off, we'll eventually reach a point where most of the population has some degree of resistance and covid will become yet another of the common cold causing coronavirus variants. Covid will be with humanity till the end I'm afraid to say.

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Stopping This Pandemic Is Like Plugging Holes In A Dike...... [View all] global1 Aug 2021 OP

Honestly - and I'm no epidemiologist, but I listen to them... cilla4progress Aug 2021 #1

Totally agree..and we need fewer humans putting such a strain on the planet PortTack Aug 2021 #5

Port Tack, cilla4progress Aug 2021 #7

From the moment this thing went global Zeitghost Aug 2021 #2

Today's Local Newspaper leftieNanner Aug 2021 #3

Neil deGrasse Tyson has likened it to having a "pee" section in a swimming pool PortTack Aug 2021 #4

This is literally never going away Calculating Aug 2021 #6

This is exactly what I have been thinking, Calculating! cilla4progress Aug 2021 #8