Same as in most of the US now. The majority of people who get it have very mild symptoms or never know that they had it. That is how viruses work, they do not “want” to kill their hosts, so they mutate to become more transmissible and less deadly over time like the Flu did.
I rarely ever get sick so when I do, I tend to be happier than I normally am because it’s like once every couple of years. My immune system is so strong it has actually turned on itself, so I constantly live with Psoriasis and Arthritis every day of my life, and nothing makes it go away, even biologics.
That said I believe like any virus it is here to stay and will continue to mutate over time. Wither you’re vaccinated or not, the mutations like the common cold will continue to spread to the general public. I feel people need to stop worrying and just live their life. There are many things in this world that can take your life and if you constantly live in fear then you’re not truly living it.
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Of course it’s not over, it’ll never be over. It’s just the new flu we’ll always have.
tbh if anything good come out of covid is it forces company to adapt to a flexible work environment. Personally I could never see myself working full time in the office
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Happened to me. I didn’t know I had it until I lost smell and taste, and then got a weird headache and was just exhausted for about 3 days. About a week or so later smell and taste came back, but with only one weird hold over; mint (peppermint, spearmint, etc.) now tastes like raw onions to me (I hate the taste of raw onions). It’s so bad I have had to swap to bubblegum flavored toothpaste just so I don’t throw up brushing my teeth, and it’s been months now.
We just had testing reinstated at my workplace since we had two contractors and a regular clinician test positive.
4th wave wheeeee… 
Same here, I have to still deal with the “brain fog” that comes with it.
Yours is the most common scenario for most people as it has been througout the pandemic.
It sucks if your a vulnerable person or didnt get the covid defense buff.
i can’t imagine pretending that the world revolves around me… in a pandemic which impacts everyone.
this is the problem when people have never lived through something like this before.
people have grown selfish, and only think about themselves.
when vaccines for other viral illnesses became available, people jumped at the chance to access any form of protection.
perhaps you should thank these previous generations for their critical thinking skills.
…otherwise, you wouldn’t be here to thumb your nose at them, and risk their lives.
really?
tell that to Delta. 
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Same! I’ve never gone this long without so much as a cold!
I’m 5x vaxxed. Two Pfizer base + 2 Pfizer boosters + Pfizer bivalant in late September.
I live in Los Angeles around 18million other people and wear my mask everywhere. Lots of people here still do.
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no it wont ever be over it seems.
if im being real with you… its such a divisive topic i hate that it was brought up on the forums.
It shouldn’t be divisive. Our education system should be better.
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what do you mean by the school system? how would the improved system affect the divisive acts around covid?
not to be combative. im coming from a different perspective from the standard.
Masks ≠ one way valves, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to breathe through them.
Human coughing/sneezing/speaking releases microdroplets of moisture from your mouth/lungs/airways.
Those droplets carry viruses and bacteria. (Including COVID.)
As COVID has mutated, the droplets it can cling to have grown progressively smaller which have the ability to hang in the air longer.
If someone who’s carrying the virus and isn’t wearing a mask in the grocery store coughs on the next aisle and then you go down that aisle 40 seconds later and walk through their invisible virulent cloud, an N/KN95 mask that fits your face and worn properly will filter more of that air than if you weren’t wearing on.
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So actual COVID fatality numbers where most are unvaccinated and an EMT with actual real world day-to-day experience and facts is dismissible because you know best.
You probably think World Hunger is a hoax because you just had a sandwich.
~https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-covid-19-deaths-by-vaccination-status?country=~50%2B
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That’s…honestly really heartbreaking to read.
I think I remember you were a dispatcher or something, right? You had to quit entirely?
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That’s not some info, that’s just objectively wrong. The flu is also a quite aggressive virus, that’s why there have always been campaigns for flu vaccine every year here (targeted at old and ill people), especially after the big wave in 2017/2018 where 25.000 people in my country died because of it in just a few months.
Flu can cause similar long term effects, like a damaged cardiovascular system or neurological damage. Secondary infections are also part of it, like pneumonia.
The university of Oxford also had a study in 2021 where they stated that something like “long covid” is not just a symptom of Covid, but it’s also quite common with the flu. Almost as common as with Covid.
everyone should be careful but dont be paranoid guys, it has a 99.8% survival rate. its a flu not ebola.
vaccination may help lessen the severity of the virus to oneself, but in no way prevents you from getting this flu (multiple times) OR transmitting it to anyone else.
Its not a cure nor a deterrent to acquisition or transmission.
Natural acquired immunity /antibodies are always best.
As with ANY flu be clean as possible , wash hands and disinfect with strong enough hand sanitizer. Masks are useless unless they are KN95 which is not what majority wear in any country so …no point imho.
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I see the percentage number thrown around a lot in arguments. I wonder how those people who had to face the end of their days these last couple of years felt about those percentage numbers? Or perhaps their family members?
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Unfortunately every illness is deadly to some individuals. Especially the most vulnerable people in our society. But the fact that some died and some will die in the future, doesn’t mean that fear, panic and paranoia should dictate the everyday life.