The data is forming a trend that suggest this is already starting to happen, regionally. Public health is just now seeking an exit strategy:

One possibility would be an echo of the 1890 pandemic: The virus slowly drops off as countries develop herd immunity due to a large majority of the population being infected or getting vaccinated. After anywhere from a few years to a few decades, it only circulates among children and rarely causes anything more serious than the sniffles.

Or the virus could be stamped out completely, or close to it, with vaccines. It could disappear like smallpox, or be pushed to such low levels in the U.S. that it shows up only in isolated clusters, as with measles.

Source: Coronavirus variants will prolong the pandemic. But here’s how it will end – SFChronicle.com

Note – “few years” – typically 1 to 3 years, which we are at. The above report is surprisingly hopeful and seems grounded in the reality-based world. About time we see these.

Vaccines will be the final closure, so to speak, but many experts have suggested we have begun to see herd effects. Herd immunity (HI) does not mean the virus vanishes but as there are fewer and fewer targets for the virus, the pandemic gradually comes to an end.

Our strategy has been to delay cases as long as possible in the theory that vaccines would save the day. Instead, we have mostly delayed cases to their peaking this winter – after which things drop off on their own. If this occurs, vaccines will play a minor role in Covid-19 going endemic.

Like the 1968 influenza pandemic, that pandemic ended before vaccines had been widely deployed. This seems a possibility with Covid-19.

In my state, based on official statements from public health “experts”, we (meaning my household) are unlikely to have access to vaccinations until Fall of 2021 or even winter of 2021/2022.

By which time, it becomes a moot issue. There are “Experts” now suggesting the pandemic is over with by mid-2021.

Remember, I am an idiot with no health care experience. I do not make predictions. I make observations and ask stupid questions.

A public health “expert” tells the BBC that we may have travel restrictions in place for another 1 to 2 years.

It’s lock down and lock’em up forever.

Hank Aaron died two weeks after being vaccinated (he was very old).

But this quote is stunning:

He said in a program where millions of older Americans and those with serious health conditions are being vaccinated, some are going to die of heart attacks, strokes and other causes that have nothing to do with a vaccine.

Source: Health experts urge confidence in vaccine after superstar’s death

Can we apply that logic to all of those deaths “due to Covid-19”?

Locally, a large number of deaths were of persons receiving in-patient hospice care at the time they died – of Covid-19.

Think about that for five seconds. But they were counted as “death due to Covid-19”.

But now an influential public health “expert” says when a person dies after having a vaccine – it could really be a death due to a bunch of other things.

Yet every elderly death with a positive test case is classified as a Covid-19 death.

Pubic health literally wants to have this both ways – wonder why no one believes anything they say?

Do they even realize what they are saying?

Source: Oregon reports 877 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, 22 new deaths and OHA corrects slide shown at press event today

In addition to educator and elder citizens, phase 1b also includes a set of “essential workers”. This group has not yet been defined for Oregon. It is also unclear if phase 1c will start early and overlap with phase 1b. Phase 1b is overlapping with 1a here as the teachers become eligible on Monday.

At the national level, the CDC’s definition for phase 1b included 30 million workers. CDC originally included age 75+ in 1b but many states have expanded that to include age 65+. Phase 1 c, by the CDC’s estimate, added 129 million more people to the prioritized lists – this is the largest segment designated so far.

Thus phase 1c might begin in mid-May and extend well into the summer, at least.

The general population not in a prioritized group is now likely out to the Fall of 2021 (that is the official word for my state).

NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Department of Health has updated Tennessee’s COVID-19 Vaccination Plan as the state continues to prioritize Tennesseans most at risk of illness and death from COVID-19.

Source: TDH Updates COVID-19 Vaccination Plan

Read the fine print – Phase 2a/b is in Q2/Q3, then “Congregate living/grocery workers” in Q3/Q4. The general population comes after that.

They’ve known this for almost 100 years:

Confronting new, more transmissible variants of the coronavirus and a winter spike in infections, a number of European countries are beginning to make medical-grade face masks mandatory in the hope that they can slow the spread of the disease.

Source: European countries mandate medical-grade masks over cloth face coverings –CNN

Public health continues to undertake, involuntary, non-informed consent medical experiments on the population.

Germany now joins France in required certified masks, Austria and the White House in requiring N95 masks. In a couple of months, we will likely be required to wear hazmat suits with self contained breathing apparatus in order buy groceries.

Public health has demonstrated it is a religion based on beliefs, not a science. Quacks.