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Originally Posted by coffeebean
I agree with everything you said and I look forward to the day masking will no longer be necessary. I do have one concern.....If we haven't reached herd immunity, isn't there still a chance that the virus will continue to mutate creating more variants? Will masking be recommended until herd immunity is actually achieved and who knows how long that is going to take?
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Things are far simpler when we deal with what is rather than what might be.
It is interesting that I think it was syphilis in it's original form would kill the patient in a matter of days. Little chance to be spread. The disease mutated to a milder form where people could live with it for years. The milder disease was better able to spread.
Covid 19 is a virus and it will mutate. I read, a while ago, somewhere or other there were 98 distinct viruses identified. I'm sure if there were 98 today there are far more. As far as the masks, perhaps an interesting side effect this was a low year for flu cases.
We use the term, return to normal. We never can or do return to normal. We will have a new normal. That is what always has and will happen.