Ask HN: What is your opinion on whether Covid will disappear or not?

I believe it will pass. Already the Omicron variant was less fatal than the previous ones. I think we are getting closer to herd immunity where eventually the virus will mutate to just flu like symptoms and everyone will get one bout of it and then have antibodies.

I think it will end up as the flu, or as a combination. I read about a possible flu-corona (flurona?) combo a few days ago.

Funny thing is that the virus does not care about our opinions. It will take it’s own course, for good or bad. We will have to deal with the outcome. The world will not end. It’s already different. Are you asking if Will it ever go back to the way it was? Based on past pandemics, eventually yes. The question is when? I’ll leave that for smarter folks then I to answer. People are already loosing patience and I am noticing more individuals not follow safety protocols in public. They are exhausted and resigned to whatever will be. It’s like people are following a grieving process: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and eventually acceptance. Look around when you’re out and about and notice every individual around you fits somewhat into a different phase. This applies to organizations as well as individuals. Ex Walmart says they don’t allow maskless, close to sanitize stores, yet when customers don’t wear masks they say they can’t enforce. Also look at ridiculous changing CDC guidance.

My hope is that each future mutation will be milder than the last. I am currently self-isolating as my country is hammered with cases, until I can get my booster. After that, I will continue being careful and avoiding crowded places, but will have passed my threshold of _high_ worry about catching COVID myself. Eventually, I suspect we'll have annual boosters for milder variants, but the disease itself will hopefully not be as concerning or impactful as it currently is.

Covid is too much profitable to disappear.

"Go back to farming" isn't necessarily negative.