I don't understand how we got to this sort of thinking. Of course it's far from over. Why would it ever end? Influenza is still around. Rhinoviruses are still around. They're not "over". Infections diseases don't often end all on their own. The Black Death did, sort of, but that's the exception, not the rule.
Small Pox is over because we developed a vaccine and vaccinated pretty nearly everyone from 1958 to 1977, nineteen years. Technically it was "certified" as "eradicated" in 1980, and we had a vaccine as early as 1796, but it was twenty years of near universal vaccination that ended it.
If Novel-Corona-whatever does not mutate (big if) and if we get a vaccine (it's looking good) and if we can vaccinate nearly everyone (dicey, to say the least) then the pandemic will ease and in twenty years we'll be able to stop vaccinating kids.
If it *does* mutate as influenza does then everyone will need to get their annual Coronoa vaccine along with their flu shot forever. That's not a bad outcome, though not as good as the first. People will keep getting it, like we keep getting the flu, and people will keep dying, though we will get better at treating it and helping people survive.
In the meantime, without a vaccine, it's not going to end. No point in hoping. It's here, it's a thing, and no matter how much we want to go back to "normal" it doesn't happen just because time has passed.
In fact, if we don't get better at preventing the spread 1,000 people a day dying will turn into 2,000 people a day. Until the virus works its way through and everyone has either survived or not. But depending on the numbers you use that won't be until 1-3,000,000 people have died.
Anyone who says, "omigosh it's not over!" or "when will it end?" simply doesn't understand what's happening. Seems similar to watching your house burn and wondering when it will stop. It stops when you put it out or when the house is burned up. It won't just stop.
Sorry for the rant.
unpacks and sets up an inexpensive 3D printer, and prints a test object.
