I wonder when those of us who are lucky enough never to have gotten Covid (as far as we know) are going to be in such a vanishingly small minority once it’s endemic...that any collective political will to keep us from getting it is going to shrivel away? (“The rest of us got it, we lived, and we don’t care if you get it because we all have hybrid immunity, suck it up”)
Yeah. I’m trying to wrap my head around it. A lot of us are going to get it long after the infrastructure for keeping track of it, preventing it from being transmitted, or knowing whether we had it, has ceased to exist. We won’t ever have the closure of knowing exactly when we had it, and that’s fine.
And at some point our boosters are just going to be more or less continuous exposure to several variants that take turns as the dominant ones in a given season.
I wonder when those of us who are lucky enough never to have gotten Covid (as far as we know) are going to be in such a vanishingly small minority once it’s endemic...that any collective political will to keep us from getting it is going to shrivel away? (“The rest of us got it, we lived, and we don’t care if you get it because we all have hybrid immunity, suck it up”)
Is that the reality we’re headed for?
That seems not only likely, but also correct. This is basically the attitude we have towards every other endemic disease, after all.
Yeah. I’m trying to wrap my head around it. A lot of us are going to get it long after the infrastructure for keeping track of it, preventing it from being transmitted, or knowing whether we had it, has ceased to exist. We won’t ever have the closure of knowing exactly when we had it, and that’s fine.
And at some point our boosters are just going to be more or less continuous exposure to several variants that take turns as the dominant ones in a given season.
Look on the bright side. If the next variant is even less virulent than Omicron, you will stop caring about covid too.
I mean, I’m almost there? It’s really just about mental health and survivors guilt at this point.