COMMENT:
How do know the same is happening now with the count?
We don't even know what catching covid does to a person ten years later. So many questions as this is still a relatively novel disease. So much more remains to be known. Covid might do more damage as a catalyst if it simply contributes to weaken the immune system... long covid probably hasn't been considered a factor that leads to more deaths.
Personally its way to presumptuous to declare this the end to the pandemic when you consider long covid could be worse than the initial infection even if they be considered 'mild' infections for the majority.
I say the long term repercussions of diseases some of these diseases carry are worse than the the short term initial infections. We don't even know if several generations will get dementia sooner in life for having caught these 'mild' covid infections. We don't know what having caught covid in youth will do to people as they age.
Insofar as those who say "covid isn't as dangerous as it used to be" I say this "How do ya know because time has to pass to know the long term repercussions of any disease...there is just no way of knowing or proving covid is harmless to catch until that time comes.. this is impossible to know". A new disease came onto the scene and some people think they know how it's going to play out. Those are 'know it alls'. I personally don't sugar coat it and have no idea what will happen with covid and if those infected with covid or those who continue to get infected will face far worse days ahead as the years go by. It's a disease and has been proving to carry long term repercussions beyond what was expected or wished for.
For all we know some day people may refer to covid as the 'gateway disease' because it may have opened up the gate to heart attacks, dementia, sugar diabetes, decline in immune system.. etc.. You never know what's in store which is why I say the pandemic isn't over because we can't know while we are still in the process of processing it all! How can we count long covid ramifications while it is still happening and time hasn't played out yet? We aren't there yet.
"pre·sump·tion
/prēˈzəm(p)SHən/
noun
noun: presumption; plural noun: presumptions
1.
an idea that is taken to be true, and often used as the basis for other ideas, although it is not known for certain.
"underlying presumptions about human nature"
an act or instance of taking something to be true or adopting a particular attitude toward something, especially at the start of a chain of argument or action.
2.
behavior perceived as arrogant, disrespectful, and transgressing the limits of what is permitted or appropriate."
