Recent pronouncements by the World Health Organization (WHO) suggest its view of COVID-19 is evolving from a pandemic threat that’s novel and spreading to an endemic threat that has established itself as just another new contestant in the vast ecosystem of organisms that interact periodically with humans.
This suggests a need to change strategy. After all, what one might do to repel a threat that is new, identifiable, perhaps preventable and coming from outside the body is probably not useful in attempting to manage a threat that has settled in for the duration; is both inside of us and all around us; is largely invisible; is ever-changing; and is driven by forces beyond humanity and its control.