How long will our lives be affected by the COVID pandemic or some variation of it?

[madville]

2. It's a worldwide problem

Regardless of what the US does, there are going to be new mutations coming out of Africa, Central and South America and poor parts of Asia for years or decades, maybe forever.

Say 30 million people in the US never get the vaccine, that’s just a drop in the bucket if there are billions around the world that also never get it.

That doesn’t even account for people getting boosters or if effectiveness wanes significantly or disappears after a year or two. It’s going to be impossible to keep the entire third world current on effective vaccines.

Or if we get a variant that completely dodges the vaccine, it’s right back to square one getting the world vaccinated.