aonk Do you feel the same about the flue vaccine? That has to be reformulated every year to match the latest flu variant and only gives protection to about 50% of those that receive it. On average 17,000 people die from flu each year.
COVID has been particularly vicious because it is an entirely new disease and no one knew how to treat it. Now, as we know, as well as the vaccine, new ways of treating those that have the illness are getting better and treating more more effectively.
Look back to HIV/AIDS. When the disease first manifest itself in the 1980s, it killed almost all those affected nd killed them quickly. We still have no vaccine for AIDS, but developments in medications have made it a disease people live with and the longevity of those with it is not much less than the average. COVID will never go away, but like flu or AIDs it will become controllable and kept within limits.
In this age where every common illness has a vaccine or quick cure, we are forgetting how in the very recent past, for many of us, in our lifetimes, there were a whole range od diseases which came through in epidemics, which we all just took as we went: measles, mumps, polio, whooping cough, scarlet fever, German measles, diptheria, flu.
Now that these are in control, we worry about every little thing that has a name.
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