Will Covid Be With Us Forever?

[piggynose]

My sister tested positive for covid this morning!!
Told to stay at home and not mix with anyone for 5 days !!!
How did she get it? From a work colleague, who thought she only had a cold! But it turned out she had covid! Sister isnt well pleased!!!!!

[johnny.5]

yes

[dave50]

Why test yourself? Yes it probably will be with us forever just like old fashioned flu.

[rowanwitch]

Yes, but it is likely to get weaker over time, and combined with vaccines for any new strains that develop it won't be a major problem except for the really vulnerable, e.g. People with weakened immune systems or serious underlying conditions. You wouldn't think it odd to stay at home if you had a really bad cold or flu it's just going to be like that.

[New Judge]

As with all previous respiratory viruses, SARS-Cov-2 will be around forever and we will all be exposed to it multiple time in our lifetimes. Quite why anybody would test themselves for it is quite beyond me.

Who told her to stay at home and to what purpose?

[Zacs-Master]

Unless she works in a hospital, hospice or care home I can’t see why she’s been told not to mix with anyone for 5 days.

[Peter Pedant]

times yesterday
this is getting commoner - the medical metric indirect is
sale of covid tests is rising

the idea of an indirect metric is not too uber-AB is it?

[Peter Pedant]

As with all previous respiratory viruses, SARS-Cov-2 will be around forever
yeah la di da
like plague - or malaria in England
AB in full flow I see

coivd is still a threat and presumably a new vaccine will be out.
conversion from epidemic to endemic. At present you can say it is on its own

[andy-hughes]

I remember posting on here the Christmas before last, that the hysteria around Covid would not last, it would become assimilated into our culture in the same way that flu is.

It had to be, we could never sustain that level of hysteria.

Covid is now regarded in the same way as flu - exactly as I knew it would be.

It's nasty, it kills vulnerable people, the rest of us just live with it.

Hopefully, should another major virus come along in the future, we will have learned from our experience this time around, and stop virtually painting crosses on our doors, and acting like the end of the world has come early.

[Zacs-Master]

Possibly not, Andy, if it threatens to overwhelm the NHS.

[New Judge]

//Possibly not, Andy, if it threatens to overwhelm the NHS.//

The NHS is already overwhelmed.

[Zacs-Master]

Indeed, which only reinforces my point.

[ToraToraTora]

If it helps the common cold is actually a corona virus.

[Geoffrey13]

Of course it will because of all the anti-vacs who glibly fail to take preventative measures.

[Old_Geezer]

As far as I know, the only one the world has eradicated so far is smallpox. So, probably, but who knows ?

[Zacs-Master]

Smallpox, rather worryingly, still exists in secure labs in the US and Russia.

[rowanwitch]

In any workplace it's more effective for a staff member with something infectious to stay away, even with a bad cold. In a closed environment any bug can spread resulting in far higher staff absence. No one may know what their colleagues home situation may be and that bug could be carried back to a vulnerable family member.
I always told staff members who struggled in to go home again, I could cover one absence, but probably not 3,4, or more.

[Barsel]

Surely you should stay off work in some lines of employment for fear of passing it on to a vulnerable person.

[New Judge]

//I always told staff members who struggled in to go home again, I could cover one absence, but probably not 3,4, or more.//

//Surely you should stay off work in some lines of employment for fear of passing it on to a vulnerable person.//

Both good points. But why would you test for one particular disease (other than the fact that you can)? If you have a cold or flu-like illness, what it actually is should not influence your decision.

[jourdain2]

Of course it will become endemic like 'flu and cold viruses, as someone has already pointed out. Vaccination is trailing a hare - my younger daughter has caught Covid 4 times and has had every jab going. I always have a 'flu jab - but I caught 'flu (very nasty) this year.

[douglas9401]

Only diamonds are forever.

The masses have been put in their place and the world has been remodelled to suit the ends of the few.

It'll all be forgotten when prices start to fall in the shops although that may not happen for years. Road fuel is an example of a new retail norm created by the greedy and unaccountable.