[Lev1a]

> like COVID would last forever

COVID will be forever with us from now on just like the flu has been since forever and I haven't heard of a currently realistic/feasible way to snuff it out. It will be just one of those infectious diseases everyone gets the yearly shots for.

That the lockdown situation wouldn't last forever however was clear to anyone who hadn't gotten high off the farts of <insert any conspiracy theorist nut's name here>.

In the end society mirrored the body's immune system with their reaction to new viral threats:

- active defense mode: fever (lockdown) and try to sweat most of it out (first vaccines for broad herd immunity), followed by

- continual defense mode: producing and tuning antibodies to ever new mutations to the original viral aggressor (releasing lockdowns step-by-step, yearly boosters, learning to live with the chance of catching another of the myriad of diseases out there).