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Don't deny we have continuing outbreaks of disease around the world and always will.
My unsaid point was that Covid is essentially a media circus managed by clowns.
Disease, part of Nature, is cyclical as the Black Death killed some 200 million and
Spanish Influenzas some 50 million yet neither repeated their performance since.
When we get a handle on Covid-19 it won't either.
The first waves will take out the most vulnerable.
That's a cold fact of any outbreak.
They will also get those who have the misfortune to get the wrong treatment or no treatment if any is available which can benefit them. For the medical profession, that is a time to see what, if anything, works, not to be dogmatic (as ours has been).
Those who survive the disease gain a prize: natural immunity or at least some resistance to it, as a rule.
The remaining population is either isolated enough to not be exposed to the virus, has some inherent genetic resistance to it, or develops antibodies to fight it, be those "natural" from having had the disease (or a variant, which research indicates to be broad based and robust), or from the introduction of a substance to cause the body to make antibodies against the disease ("vaccination").
Despite the hype, this disease has a very high survival rate among healthy and young people with no other complications, far beyond the "Spanish Flu" or the Bubonic and Pneumonic Plagues that made up the "Black Death". Over time, as one thing fails to kill us off, or another, we have found ways to either treat the diseases, or through vaccines or isolation, prevent their spread until the people carrying a viral load have died out or fully recovered.
In this case, isolation was not going to work, simply because by the time the disease was announced, it was endemic, globally, something we can thank the Chinese (CCP) for, and any who were aware of the outbreak at the CDC, NIAID, and especially the WHO. Some politicians get a hat tip there, too, having insisted there was no risk.
The current jabs don't quite fit the bill previous vaccines have, in that they do not prevent people from catching the disease and developing a viral load similar to a full blown infection, they just alleviate the symptoms for the infected. This is like taking enough cold remedy to feel better and then going to work and sharing the bug with your co-workers, only on a much larger scale.
As for the Flu Shot, keep in mind that the influenza jab is a spin of the wheel to bet the hemagglutinin (H) and the neuraminidase (N) antigens will be the right ones for this year's common and nastiest variants.
Considering there are 16 different hemagglutinin and 9 different neuraminidase proteins, there are a considerable number of possible combinations, and the hopes are that at least one of the proteins (H or N) will be correct for this year's round.
YMMV, but, I have never had a flu shot, and thankfully, never had the flu. I have had bacterial pneumonia (bilateral), and that was the only time I have been in a hospital overnight in my lifetime. I'm no fan of drowning in my own secretions, and I don't take the possibilities of this disease as lightly as some might think, but I do believe it is fully treatable if the dogs in the Medical manger would ever get out of the way of that. At least my experience with the "horse wormer" and zinc was a positive one, without ill effects.
The ticket to defeating this bug is to let the kids get it (very rarely fatal in the 0-9 age group), treat the adults who do, and in a generation, it will be gone, just another childhood fever.
