How will it end?

[bobmac]

Looking ahead, how will the pandemic end in the UK?

As long as our borders are open and other countries are still ''active'' it's hard to see an absolute end.

 

[USER1999]

Annual vaccinations, and people continuing to wear masks, and carry hand sanitiser. There is no 'end'.

 

[Swinglowandslow]

This is one for Ethan. No doubt he will put our speculations right.
My layman's take on it is that when enough of the population has been vaccinated , and there is enough people with antibodies, the virus will still be there but not flourish.
Much as the flu virus is still here, but cannot get a big enough hold ...
Something like that.

 

[Kennysarmy]

I think to believe there will be an "end" is possibly the wrong mind-set, as stated above we learn to live with the Flu and other diseases and illnesses that kill people each year. In fact, how many die on the roads yet we deem driving a necessary risk!

 

[Deleted member 29109]

There is no end. This is here now.

My very uneducated guess. The virus will either mutate and become annoying like the common cold. Or mutate and kill us all.

 

[GB72]

Virus will mutate and start turning the infected into zombies.

Society will break down as we all join a desperate fight for survival.

A petition will be started asking for golf courses to remain open.

Agree, just watch the Walking Dead for your answer.

 

[USER1999]

Agree, just watch the Walking Dead for your answer.

I have it more as World War Z myself.

 

[JollyRedDevil]

Virus will mutate and start turning the infected into zombies.

Society will break down as we all join a desperate fight for survival.

A petition will be started asking for golf courses to remain open.

We've already had a petition posted on our Whatsapp group.

 

[SaintHacker]

Virus will mutate and start turning the infected into zombies.

Society will break down as we all join a desperate fight for survival.

A petition will be started asking for golf courses to remain open.

That begs the question, to dispatch a zombie would you go for the accuracy of a 9 iron or the power of a 3?

 

[USER1999]

That begs the question, to dispatch a zombie would you go for the accuracy of a 9 iron or the power of a 3?

I think the 3i, as it keeps the Z further away, and if you air shot, you may yet have time to back away, and have a second swish.

 

[bobmac]

I'm hoping as more people get vaccinated, and the lockdown slows down the number of new cases, restrictions will ease.
Eventually, it will be a jab/booster you get every year or two.

 

[Orikoru]

I believe that we'll never actually cure it - given that it mutates like common cold. One day we'll just have to give up trying to protect everyone and let things go back to normal with people taking their own precautions as they see fit. I don't think we'll ever eradicate it. The vaccines may work for now, but then the virus will simply mutate and come back in a different form making the vaccines redundant.

 

[IanM]

When zombies storm across the links, will they be obliged to adhere to the dress code?

 

[GB72]

I have it more as World War Z myself.

To be fair, Mad Max was sent in 2021 so maybe that is where we should be looking.

 

[USER1999]

To be fair, Mad Max was sent in 2021 so maybe that is where we should be looking.

I have a suitable V8.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Employers are going to have to become used to quite possibly significant numbers of employees taking time of sick with suspected Covid...and these employees getting paid for their time off. Where that leaves the millions on zero hours contracts I don't know.

Employers are also going to have to have robust and fully thought through business continuity plans in the event of many staff being off either with covid or suspected. All will have possibly 'informal' BCPs for occasional and short term loss of a small % of their workforce - but the virus changes the magnitude of the disruption they'd have to cope with and so plan for.

 

[Billysboots]

I believe that we'll never actually cure it - given that it mutates like common cold. One day we'll just have to give up trying to protect everyone and let things go back to normal with people taking their own precautions as they see fit. I don't think we'll ever eradicate it. The vaccines may work for now, but then the virus will simply mutate and come back in a different form making the vaccines redundant.

I agree to an extent, but the suggestion is that now we have vaccines, modifying them to deal with mutations is not an enormous task. No doubt Ethan will correct me if I’ve misunderstood.

Certainly I don’t see COVID-19 being eradicated. It’s here to stay.

 

[Tashyboy]

I think the 3i, as it keeps the Z further away, and if you air shot, you may yet have time to back away, and have a second swish.

second swish, don’t you mean play a provisional.?

 

[Bunkermagnet]

When Marshall law takes control and those infected are shot and burnt.

Either that or we give China the control they want of us and the World for the antidote.

 

[Tashyboy]

History shows us that these viruses can come back with deadly effect second time around. Eg Spanish flu. I don’t think it will ever be gone. Ave a feeling masks and sanitizers will be the norm. Millions will die, yet Tracy on FB will say it’s a hoax and Trump discovered the cure.