> Good vaccines + mild severity illness are basically the best case.
If it was a common cold or a flu ? Maybe.
> “Although COVID-19 has been described as a respiratory syndrome, evidence supports the involvement of multiple organ systems, with fibrosis, and inflammation in the lung, heart, kidneys, central nervous system (CNS), liver, adrenal glands, bone marrow, lymph nodes, and gastrointestinal tract. SARS-CoV-2 infection has also been associated with serious thrombotic complications, including strokes, pulmonary embolism, and cardiac injury.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/11/10/leon-n10.htm
Endemic we want ? Then we want yearly (or 6months it seems) vaccines. And masks. And ventilation.
Reinfections will get more severe with age once vaccine or infection elicited sera wanes.
> What a stroke of luck that we are here vs a more infectious strain of Delta or some other nightmare that would keep this rolling.
Omicron being the new kid on the block doesn't mean another more dangerous variant isn't building itself up in a body somewhere.
Maybe two years into the pandemic is not enough to let the reality sink in that we will never come back to before. Maybe we need ten years but by then we'll all be used to the new normal anyway. “Learn to live with the virus”, they said. Indeed.