What's got me worried is whether long-term damage from COVID will make people more vulnerable to the inevitable bird flu pandemic. That could be a one-two punch for mass death because you know there will never be any pandemic mitigation ever again.
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Not only is it going to make people more vulnerable, like it's doing for every other outbreak of opportunistic infections we're seeing, it will also contribute to an increase in the spread. Mass immune dysregulation is going to absolutely fuck humanity.
That's a good point - COVID might even be what allows bird flu to achieve human-human transmission, since an opportunistic animal-human transmission could allow for it to incubate in a large number of human hosts until it gets the mutations it needs to make the jump.
Yeah, shit's been keeping me up at night for years. 
Virology class made it seem like the pandemics were coming, not a matter of if but when. Here we are and handling it poorly.
Yeah feels like capitalism is just speed running all the endings.
I think all the people dropping dead as society collapses will help to mitigate the spread somewhat
don't worry, we're talking about it like that now 
What's worse, that or people talking about COVID in the future like it wasn't anything big?
I already do. We will become befrailed befuddled plaguestrels. Your heartbeat is a doomdrum.
I've had covid like, 4 times confirmed now? Lmao im gonna have early alzheimers
We're gonna make the lead years seem like the Renaissance.
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No. Covid wont be going away. Future generations will suffer cognitive decline from covid same as us. Acces to vaccines is getting worse not better. Precautions like masking and social distancing are almost univerally droped.
Reminder to anyone reading this comment to please for the love of Fuck, wear a well-fitting N95 or better respirator anytime you're outside your apartment (unless maybe you're alone outside). If you're going to the store, mask up. If you're going to the doctor, mask up. If you're going to a protest, mask up. And try to keep the risks to a minimum -- that is, if you're going to spend time in a group, encourage that group to wear masks too because two-way masking is better at preventing diseases from spreading than 1-way masking.
Future bored students will be taught to compare and contrast the Spanish Flu with COVID, and then write an LLM-generated essay about what we learned the second time around.
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We didn't learn anything, and the third pandemic will mirror the previous responses.