[nahqz]

There is absolutely no way to stop the spread forever. Just suggesting it is crazy. It is an option you have to forget about.

Stalling the spread is useless as well - we have already had two major mutations in less than two years.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

> There is absolutely no way to stop the spread forever.

There's a significant difference between COVID-19/SARS-COV-2 become endemic, and it continuing as a pandemic that threatens public health systems due to caseload density. Yes, we're unlikely to get beyond it being endemic, which means that like influenza, it will continue to be an issue, but we can certainly get a point where it is "just endemic", which would be a huge improvement over the current situation.

[Spare_account]

>we have already had two major mutations in less than two years.

How frequently do equivalent Flu mutations occur?

[hcurtiss]

Every. Single. Year.

[toyg]

> There is absolutely no way to stop the spread forever.

Well, there is, we just don't want to pay for it: vaccinating poor countries, where effectively the mutations are being created by high infection rates.

[dharbin]

Don't forget to vaccinate the wild deer and other animals that catch and spread COVID.

[TacticalCoder]

I don't understand: every single study out there says that vaccinated people do still catch the virus and can still spread it.

Why would the current crop of vaccines be able to stop the virus, even if applied worldwide, seen that they don't prevent infection?

[nahqz]

The vaccine hasn't stopped spread in rich countries, why would it do so in poor countries?

Also there haven't been enough variants as to determine that most variants are coming from poor countries. Speaking of delta, India has more population than the entirety of Europe. Mathematically it makes sense than a variant could come from there regardless of whether the vaccine does anything.