Scientists need to start working much more on determining mechanistic collaborates of protection that can be used to make better vaccines and determine risk on an individual level. It's hard, but vaccine development can't just be plugging someone else's sequence into your mRNA vaccine and calling it good.
I predict that people will continue to wear masks during covid and flu spikes like they've done for decades in countries like Japan. At least when you're in urban areas or taking a subway packed with people.
This is the laziest article imaginable. "Endemic doesn't mean harmless"... how is that anything informative? We are seeing a wave of scaremongering propaganda from the scientist/government establishment that just makes it screamingly clear that science is in the pocket of governments with their agendas, and does its bidding instead of doing, you know, science.
Harmless is a pipe dream of a goal. Very few endemic viruses are harmless, the common cold kills many people a year so even that isn’t harmless.
Let’s really cement the goalposts where they are so this endless march of “well vaccine doesn’t mean harmless” and “well antivirals aren’t perfect” to “well endemic doesn’t mean we can relax”… it is insane.