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OK:  I am going to say the seemingly unsayable.  Covid is now endemic.  If there was a chance to contain it, it is just too late now.

The reasons are many.  But at the end of the day, it was always kind of a forlorn hope that we would be able to contain it.  Vaccines are kinda not as effective or safe as everyone hopes that they will be.  Oh, granted there have been successes in the past, but for the most part it was lucky that they worked as well as they did.  We got the idea that vaccines were the be all and end all.  

The next spot of bother is the nature of the interconnected world we live in.  People move a lot and this will get even worse in the future.  The days of volkswanderung are upon us and folks are going to be moving around and their on-board flora will be progressively harder to contain.

Nope, the “pandemic” is now endemic.  We have to figure out how to live with it and how to die with it.  Because both of these things are in the cards.

The times they are a changing.