The world has finally entered an endemic phase. ‘The COVID19 pandemic is over,’ according to Professor Luke O’Neill. PatKenny
“We knew anyway that was the case,” he said. “In the old days, say with the 1918 pandemic, it’s over when you say it’s over.
“There haven’t been any new ones since and the one that is there isn’t any way nastier than the previous one.“Now that is not to downplay the seriousness of it; some will still get infected and get very sick with it, just like the flu – so we have to keep an eye on it medically.Professor O’Neill said he believes the FBI’s recent announcement that it believes the virus most likely originated in a Chinese government-controlled lab is “political”.
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