Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
SARS-CoV-2 is on its way to becoming endemic.
Nobody would particularly care about case numbers if severe disease was rare...as it certainly appears to be in highly-vaccinated Israel.
Amazing what a novel virus no longer being novel to your immune system can do for outcomes.
Indeed. But like the four other commonly circulating coronaviruses (
229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1), and the 200+ Other viruses ( rhinoviruses, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, adenoviruses - heck even some enteroviruses) that commonly cause colds, even a cold will kill you if you are old with comorbidities, which is exactly where the overwhelming number of these fatalities are coming from. And at the other end - those under 18 who make up 22.5% of the population are only accounting for 35/67,187 of the mortality.
we are stealing these kids future to protect the 70+ year olds and not even all 6% of them, mainly the ones with comorbidities- and those mostly already vaccinated now - or already dead.
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...Age-Group.aspx
So basically, it will be possible to keep up the COVID scare indefinitely even when it ought to fade into the background - if the media tries hard enough.