A virus of this nature cannot be 'controlled'We have Dumb Dumb Dom in NSW deciding to let it rip.
This is not an easy message to convey, even to those who have have already accepted that zero-covid was toast. Essentially everyone will eventually get infected by SARS-CoV-2 in the near future, and likely more than once in their lifetime. 1/
One can don an FFP2, FFP3, N95 mask, or a hazmat suit, or whatnot, but at this stage, all this may achieve is to delay the time until some of us will get infected, and thereby marginally prolong the pandemic. 2/
I feel vindicated; the zero Covid brigade were wrong and I was right about how the pandemic will end.I believe it is time to give in soon. Vaccine protection rates are as high as they may ever be in many places, and now we've got a couple of decent drugs. Pretending we remain in control, of sorts, is just becoming too costly. 5/
Endemic equilibrium here we come; countries can delay it and prolong the epidemic but they cannot avoid the fact that it's going to go the same way as previous HCoVs, such as OC43 (which likely caused the pandemic of c.1889).