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Do you think the pandemic will be over with Omicron?

Of course the virus itself won't disappear but hopefully all measures limiting our daily lives.

Personally I think Omicron is the last variant of concern and as many countries have agreed on it's fortunately not dangerous enough for restrictions to make sense anymore.

I don't think a new more dangerous variant will emerge. If it did, I'd think that to be rather suspicious.

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  • No, and I really do not at all understand how you and so many other people inexplicably believe that Omicron is the last variant of concern when the overwhelming majority of scientists and medical researchers continuously warn of new variants emerging, as they have throughout the last two years.

    How can you say Omicron is not dangerous enough for restrictions to make sense anymore when the variant's high level of infection translated to more people dying?

    I don’t think a new more dangerous variant will emerge. If it did, I’d think that to be rather suspicious.

    What on earth are you basing this off of? I'm a research scientist and while my field isn't related to medical sciences, I know enough to learn from research scientists in the medical field who have been repeatedly saying that new variants will inevitably emerge. This is basic biology and it's mind blowing how COVID exhaustion has lead people to conveniently downplay how serious COVID is and will continue to be in the future.

    At the very least, mask wearing in buildings needs to continue to be normalized. N95 masks clearly offer protection for the wearer and more so for anyone around the wearer, as it significantly limits spread of COVID. Why or how could you possibly think that a new, more dangerous variant of COVID would be "suspicious" when basic biology tells us that this virus, just like any other similar virus, will always have new variants? Do you have any educational background in science or medicine that you're basing your opinion off of?