Seriously, what's the covid endgame?

Serious replies only please. I will report the off-topic posts for deletion.

CarbonFiberJoe wrote:

We just need all these restrictions until there's a vaccine... okay, fair enough.

Now we need "90% vaccinated" (not going to happen), and even then we still have to wear masks, and even then the vaccines might not work?

What's the actual, no-goalposts-moving end goal here?

Total submission to the New World Order. Go ahead report me, that's what the New World Order expects of its subjects.

All at risk persons vaccinated and capacity to give them periodic boosters.

I won't report any good-faith attempt to answer the question. Thank you Kvothe and CrispyChicken.

Its over when all the small businesses have ceased operations so the big corporations can monopolize the industries.

Minimal cases. Life in NZ has been fairly normal for the most part, occasionally locking down for cases they don't understand (fearing community spread).

To acquire all of the infinity stones and then eliminate half of the life in the universe.

No end game. When anyone who wants a vaccine can get one, things will go back to mostly normal. Normal people aren’t going to wait around for anti vaxers. Probably by July you will no longer feel the need to start threads like this.

Yeah, no real "end game", just a normal rollout of a vaccine. Depending on how quickly people can get vaccinated, when everyone who wants to be vaccinated is, things will open back up (this is likely to be around the end of the summer, beginning of the fall?).

End game is actually very simple and compared to many of the challenges that have faced humankind, fairly easy.

We currently need to keep transmission as low as humanly possible to defeat the spread of the highly contagious variants and to stop an escape variant from emerging. That means no indoor dining/bars, mask wearing and other social distancing measures. This will need to happen for the next 3-4 months depending on how fast vaccines get distributed.

We need mass vaccination to happen as fast as possible and we need 70-90% vaccinated.

If we beat out the variants and keep an escape variant from emerging, we will see COVID cases evaporate over the summer.

The last step is the fall. Kids will return to school and many will not be vaccinated until we get closer to winter. People with kids will need to do everything they can to keep their kids from getting infected. The same variant threat will be there in the fall. We do not want to get that far and then have kids circulate the virus, causing a new variant to emerge that escapes immunity.

We will also need to make sure the world gets vaccinated. Again, the threat is the escape variant. We need to be sure that we do not go all through this to have a variant emerge in a third world country unnecessarily because wealth countries refused to fund vaccination efforts.

If we get through all of the above, we will be able to return to normal. But there will still need to be mass testing and tracing to make sure no variant outbreak occurs. And there will need to be continued vaccine development in case boosters are needed. But by the fall, many restriction will be relaxed for those without kids and once everyone is vaccinated, it will be the end of the pandemic save and except for the possibility of a seasonal booster.

Moron#5 wrote:

Pat of the problem Joe is that you aren’t very bright. You talk about an endgame. What is the flu endgame? What is the climate change endgame? What is the cancer endgame? Please educate yourself before polluting this board with your ignorance.

What kind of trolling is this. Mock someone for asking a legit question. What are we doing here in 2021? The endgame should be in 2 months the only thing we do to battle this corona virus is offer people the option of a vaccine and then move on and ignore the children who cannot handle the reality of one deadly virus while ignoring the reality of other deadly things we live with every day. A big vaccine push should occur and then the world should move on, not get sucked down a perpetual hole of panic, isolation and nonsense to appease weak minded rich people.

when all the wealth is in the hands of the corporations and we are begging for our UBI. That's my honest attempt to answer.

this has been an epic assault on the middle class, the ramifications of which we have not begun to see

You aren’t very bright either. Part of the reason there is no endgame is because of people like you. You also have to understand the vaccine is not some magical elixir. You are not bright enough for this subject.

CarbonFiberJoe wrote:

We just need all these restrictions until there's a vaccine... okay, fair enough.

Now we need "90% vaccinated" (not going to happen), and even then we still have to wear masks, and even then the vaccines might not work?

What's the actual, no-goalposts-moving end goal here?

Just until we flatten the curve!???

All it will take is one variant thats slightly more deadly, affects young people and is immune to the vaccine..and we are back to square one.

If nothing else, THIS is why we should be masking up and getting shots into arms asap to end this as soon as we can.

CarbonFiberJoe wrote:

We just need all these restrictions until there's a vaccine... okay, fair enough.

Now we need "90% vaccinated" (not going to happen), and even then we still have to wear masks, and even then the vaccines might not work?

What's the actual, no-goalposts-moving end goal here?

We just need to lockdown for two weeks to flatten the curve and then we can get back to normal. That’s the end game.

Nice try buddy, I think the main problem is stupid people like yourself not the other way around.

Lead Foil Hat wrote:

Moron#5 wrote:

You aren’t very bright either. Part of the reason there is no endgame is because of people like you. You also have to understand the vaccine is not some magical elixir. You are not bright enough for this subject.

Nice try buddy, I think the main problem is stupid people like yourself not the other way around.

Epic comeback.

The OP posted the exact same thread yesterday and got like 5 pages of response.

Why do it again?

Did they forget they did this? Dementia? Big risk factor for COVID so they should be scared they will go the way of Dunes Runner and Allen53 (presumed covid deaths).

Harambe wrote:

The OP posted the exact same thread yesterday and got like 5 pages of response.

I can see the similarities but this is a different question.