If we just look at the top broad blue line, it appears that the Covid pandemic is flattening out and therefore coming to an end. But that is not meaningful, because the number of people contracting the disease is enormous. Those first few months on the chart are nearly vertical, but the numbers of people involved were relatively few. It is only when the lines near the top of the chart are absolutely horizontal that the Covid pandemic is over, and even a gentle slope as the United States has still represents a tremendous threat because there are many sources of contracting the disease and even worse, there are many possibilities of new deadly mutations arising. The large numbers of Delta variants offer the possibility of it mutating into an even more contagious form or a more deadly one. 

Everyone wants the pandemic to end, but it won’t end until it runs out of opportunities to find new hosts. It is that simple. There are eight billion people, and only 187 million (2%) who have developed immunity via having had the disease, and only 3.4 billion (43%) with shots in their arms have immunity. Covid still has about 55% of the human population upon which to thrive.

Covid isn’t ever going to totally disappear. Even the 1918 virus may still be viable in dead bodies buried in the frozen soil in the Arctic. If you haven’t had the Covid disease or the shot, you will be at risk of dying from it for the rest of your life.