The message constantly proffered by politicians is that we will soon be past this horrible Covid calamity. But that is the wrong message. Reports from the people who have survived years-long ordeals and wrote books about them tell us that hopeful belief brings repeated disappointments, followed by despair and death. James Stockdale, who spent seven years as a prisoner of war in a Vietnam jail, said those prisoners who set dates for release died of broken hopes as the years went by. Eile Wiesel, who spent years in German camps during WWII, said the same thing. Both of these guys survived by facing the facts and coping with them stoically.

 

COVID pandemic – August 15th 2021 – Logarithmic Chart

Approach Covid from the more experience-based point of view and assume the disease will become like the flu. All humans will eventually be exposed to Covid and develop antibodies, either by having the disease or getting vaccinated. Over decades, it will become slightly more benign but still kill people weakened by age, compromised health, or the bad luck of aspirating the disease from their upper respiratory system into their lungs.
We will be exposed to Covid for the rest of our lives, and we can develop some immunity the easy way with vaccines or the hard way by catching the disease and usually surviving it or dying.