OldMedUser
Well-Known Member
That's when enough people are immune to a disease from either contracting the disease or being protected by a vaccine that the virus can't find enough people to infect and just dies out. Like what has happened with smallpox, polio, measles etc. There are still little pockets of those diseases around and measles for one has been making a bit of a comeback as so many people have opted out of having their kids vaccinated against it the last couple decades. The abundance of people moving around the planet makes it a lot easier to find fresh bodies to inhabit and reproduce. Look how fast Omicron has spread around the world and Delta before it.
All virus mutates as it moves from person to person. Some mutations can be almost non-infectious and the virus dies out or a much more deadly version can arise that has a much higher kill rate. That was basically the Black Plague and the Spanish flu of days gone by. The more unprotected people there are the more mutations will happen. It's a roll of the genetic dice how a new variation emerges.
The big concern is how all these unvaxxed people are plugging up the ICUs to the point that people needing them for non-Covid related illness are unable to get the treatment they need to survive. Delayed cancer surgeries alone are killing lots of people who would otherwise be treated in time to save their lives. Their deaths should also be counted among the deaths recorded to be from Covid then the numbers would reflect the reality better.
Antivaxxers are selfish, self-centred people who care little for their fellow humans.. Me me me and my freedumbs is their only concern.
If people in the 1940s had of had that same attitude we'd all be speaking German and goose-stepping our way thru life by now.
