It is going to be quite amazing if after billions in research using the latest science has to offer, global mobilization efforts not seen since WWII, draconian lockdowns even in "free" nations, if nature says "hold my beer" as Omicron becomes what really ends the pandemic.
There is no practical way of ending the political exploitation of this pandemic, even if the pandemic becomes a complete falsehood. We can't just shoot political activists or politicians. We have to learn to massively overwhelm their relevance in media and get better politicians.
I state without any equivocation that even Trump was snookered by the media/bureaucracy/fake science exploitation event. Conservatives might be generally ignoramuses lost in an Americanism dreamland, Coolites might be equally lost in a Global dreamland, and the entire discussion just a wagon that's got no wheels.
But the facts are still there to be reckoned with when we care to.
Covid19 was a man-made, political exploitation event deliberately run out on the world by international schemers with the aim to increase government powers, possibly reduce overpopulation a smidgeon, and greatlty enhance fascist fortunes.
As a viral factor, it will not survive three more years anywhere on earth. It does not have the basic factors to become a permanent part of the bioverse.
It has been known from the outset that anti-viral agents of many kinds can reduce its effects, and our authorities have fought against their deployment. Fauci knew from day one that it came from the research he oversaw. Xi knew from day one it came from American labs in the first place and was transported to Wuhan for deployment.
The rapid variant succession will mean various types of immunity will proliferate accordingly, and, importantly, the less severe effects of many of these will confer immunity at some level for various types of immunity factors will become widespread and limit the impact of the more severe variant types. And since there is no anticipated (or known) natural reservoir for any of these in nature, this virus will become extinct.
At this point, it might become a "thing" for people to have "Omicron Parties" with hopefully just a tinge of common sense, like don't go if you have comorbidity issues, where someone having Omicron can just happily spread it to all his friends. Not recommending Omni parties here, just sayin'. It could be as good as a vaccination of any kind we have.
Therefore, I think the real pandemic is gonna just die the death it deserves.
Not sure that will affect the scare mongering politicians/activists/authorities.
And, for the mods who surely will face charges that this is disinformation, it's not. It's a logical schema that depends on the possible validity of the assumed "facts" in view. The belief that anyone wanted this to happen derives from the political fortunes, and financial fortunes of undeniably interested parties in our political environment. Such as Bill Gates with his investment outlays and his belief that overpopulation is the overwhelming issue we need to address geopolitically. And Fauci with his relationship to Gates via stock holding in Moderna. I've heard one report from a person who presented credible context, that Gates and Fauci met in Washington State in 2017 and agreed to cooperate on getting global vaccination passports in place by 2020. No way to verify such a thing, unless we had the political will and political muscle/establishment5 support to do a real grand jury investigation of whatever evidence there is on the subject. Otherwise, it's unprovable and easily dismissed as some damn conspiracy theory even though there is a lot public information on these people that adds up to a credible belief that they would want such a development worked towards.
The evidence is out that Fauci had the knowledge of the route and destination of the research funds for the Wuhan lab to do this. We don't yet have proof of material viral transfers from American labs to Wuhan, but the fact is known, and can be researched, that we have been doing such research with such viral materials for decades.
All in all, the Tea Party movement triggered the supposedly gradualist Fabian global fascists to get dangerously alarmed at losing power, so they went too fast on all this, and have set off a public reaction that will mean the end, the full end, of their political development, the complete loss of their power politically and financially.
Not sure what will be next, but it has to be a global development with a lot of central authority, just maybe not so corrupt.
The fact that prominent Democrats and media retailers went ape on Trump for the first travel ban on people from Wuhan, and a lot of crazy stuff like Pelosi making a show of going to China town while Fauci was saying masks don't work, not to mention the orders to send Covid positive infectives into elder care facilities, and orders to cut down mass transit which forces people packing into the fewer cars....... a whole lot of stupid almost compels the rational person to belief intent to politically exploit the pandemic. Just to ditch Trump? Yah gotta be nuts, right?
The prospect that Covid is gonna finish off quickly relies on the high infectivity and low impact of Omicron, together with the many immunological consequences of a very robust immunity that it could spread. Further variants are still possible, but likely will be more like Omicron than the released virus set loose oh maybe August to November 2019. mild upper respiratory infections, less concerning that ordinary flu.