Each time it was mentioned that covid was becoming endemic I didn't understand why this was supposed to be a good thing. Accepting that the virus kept circulating surely meant accepting that people kept dying? Turns out I'm not the one who was misunderstanding it. A quote from nature:
"There is a widespread, rosy misconception that viruses evolve over time to become more benign. This is not the case: there is no predestined evolutionary outcome for a virus to become more benign, especially ones, such as SARS-CoV-2, in which most transmission happens before the virus causes severe disease."
-- Aris Katzourakis
h/t Alice Roberts
Paul
in reply to Gidi Kroon • • •I recently heard another quote about endemicity that changed my perspective on it. It goes something like this:
"People think that COVID being endemic means we can stop thinking about it, when really it just means we have to think about it all the time."
Agreed it's not a good outcome, but it was probably inevitable.
Gidi Kroon
in reply to Paul • •