Ok, can we move onto the next variant or are we done? :D
It's not done, not yet. We are still in a pandemic, and the unvaccinated are doing their part to help that along faster, which might ultimately help the rest of us.
But the next phase (we hope) is an endemic infection, which can spend anywhere between a year and a few million years randomly mutating to become part of our ecosystem. what we might have just seen is a likely scenario for how the first Coronavirus strains infected our ancestors 5 or 10 million years ago.
OR
I mean it's a mindless molecule package that likes to replicate in actual cells. We can't control them and we certainly don't know that the next mutation won't be the next best thing to an extinction event. It can get that bad. Or not. Who knows.
(Consider Ebola is a virus with a 90% death rate in humans and other apes, and those that survive it are not exactly unscathed. Nothing stops a coronavirus from doing that too, except they don't seem to be familiar with the Ebola's story. Fortunately Ebola doesn't seem to do well outside of a very limited range)
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