Hope Around the Corner
We are again scrambling to put back stringent measures such as heightened public health protocols as the world once more battens down the hatches in confronting the latest COVID-19 variant called Omicron.
But even as preparations are being made to manage the omicron variant there are early reports that speak of the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic is in its last legs and that its latest variant is proof of that.
In fact preliminary studies show that the omicron variant is less virulent than the other variants such as the Alpha, Beta, and Delta, and according to one Monica Gandhi, an immunologist at the University
of California, San Francisco, “We’re now in a totally different phase, the virus is always going to be with us, but my hope is this variant causes so much immunity that it will quell the pandemic”.
There it is folks, the experts now believe that because the omicron variant is so contagious it will indeed infect a whole lot of people but the upside is once they are cured they are now more or less immune from the COVID-19 virus.
And because there are so many people now immune to the virus experts further believe that the pandemic phase will already end and transition into what they call an endemic phase.
Here is a report in a website called healthline.com that shows us the ray of hope glimpsed by the experts on the COVID-19 virus or the SARSCoV- 2 and what endemic is all about, “At the start of the pandemic, infectious diseases experts believed that we’d eventually reach herd immunity with COVID-19 when the bulk of the population achieved protection either from natural infection or vaccination.
But most experts now agree that the coronavirus isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and rather than being eliminated, SARS-CoV-2 will become endemic. Endemic does not mean we’ll stomp out COVID entirely, but rather that we’ll learn to live with it and see less transmission and less severe outcomes in people who get infected.”
“We will all be exposed to it at some point, and either will have no infection, mild infection, or severe infection,” said Dr. Jason Gallagher, an infectious disease expert, clinical professor at Temple University’s School of
Pharmacy, and clinical pharmacy specialist in infectious diseases at Temple University Hospital.”
What these experts are saying is that eventually we will have to learn to live with the COVID-19 virus in much the same manner that we are living with other infectious diseases and having the knowledge that we can already contain it (no more pandemic), we can manage it effectively and we can already go back to an almost normal way of life.
So if all goes according to what the medical experts are saying then hope is just around the corner and that a nearly cataclysmic event that has shaken the world for nearly two years will finally come to an end.
It is also time for people to understand that pandemics have been around for as long as the human species has roamed this world. It is only that we have learned to overcome these pandemics that we are still here.
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