COVID is a Powderpuff. 

The narrative will be dead after the US election. About two weeks later its will be flushed down the memory hole. 

Well Cobber, every person on this forum hopes you are correct.....for whatever reason, we would all love it to be gone in 30 days!

I was wrong the election was further off. November 3rd. 

This boogie man will be pushed very had in the media. I assume it will be absolutely hammered all the way up to the culmination on election day.  There will be a ton of emotive stuff .

I wish the general public weren't so stupid and could see through this bull$hit

0.3% fatalities

For it to be over by the election "the curve needs to be flatten".  Remember that phrase from the beginning of the outbreak?

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Did you just change the thread title?  Because 30 days from the first post is 15th October, not the date of the election.

From a European perspective it is confusing why you tie the unfolding of a pandemic to the USA political time table.  Or was your concern (as you mentioned "narrative") more about how the papers report things rather than the actual progression of the pandemic?

Technophobe, 

What you wrote was so incredibly powerful. I could not agree more.

I am so sorry for the situation your friends find themselves in; how heartbreaking. 

Thank you, Beachmama.  It was nice to be both read and understood.  I was starting to think I was writing gibberish.

Not long now.....until we find that Cobber misspelled adding a "D" to POWER-PUFF.  This virus seems to have lot of "Puff" left.

Granted this is not the "slate-wiper" although that may happen if the medical facilities are overwhelmed (I heard on this morning's radio news that Belgium has announced that all its ICU are full), and civil order breaks down.

Quite frankly, I am getting fed up with the politicians, everywhere. Not much to say about the so called medical scientists either.

They are either trying their best to look optimistic, about the efforts being made by the populations to get on top of this virus, OR, they are terrified at the prospect of, as a politician said, "An Inconvenient Truth".

There are far too many instances of significant numbers of people, from far too many countries, ignoring the rules in place altogether, or merely abiding by the rules that suit them. That completely undermines any optimism that any politician can have. And mine as well!!!

There are apparently, up to eleven potential vaccines, undergoing stage three trials. Quite honestly, I won't hold my breath. The medical bunch seem to think, that a 50% efficacy would be a result. Oh no it wouldn't. Two or three jabs a year, that still leaves us with a one in two chance of catching it, is not a vaccine. It would also be mightily expensive to bring into being, assuming it could ever be done, with the regular incompetence shown day in, day out, by so many governments.

This leaves us with the inconvenient truth.............This virus is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. Let's say, about fifty to one hundred years.

One scientist suggests there could be as many as 20,000 variants of Covid-19, and many more still to emerge.

I personally went into 'Lockdown' on February 5 2020. My only 'adventures' out, have been to work, or to shop, and nothing else. I am still in 'Lockdown' and I plan on staying there. 

The television is rubbish, and I'm fed up with the constant repeats. The radio isn't any better. But I am safe where I am, in my four walls.

At least I think I am.

Election day been and gone,,,,and covid-19 seems to have been relegated to second place in the news.... but it is not going to fade away like a powder puff.  Rather if cases keep rising then it might be USA that fades away not the coronavirus,  

US hits record daily case rise three days running

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54851759

Meanwhile~~HOSPITAL CRISIS IN FRANCE: #COVID19 is now so bad, WhatsApp groups of ER staff in Paris: “There are 15 patients in the corridors, we do not know where to put them, we keep watch until 4 am, if it continues like this, we are going to crash", fears ER staff.

ksc just posted an article about Pfizer claiming its vaccine has a 90% efficacy.  Good news but it's not over by a long shot.  It will still be six to 12 months before that vaccine is approved, manufactured and administered.

Meanwhile we sit with an increased infection rate of 120,000+ cases a day in the U.S.  So the CFR might be lower, but it will still overwhelm our hospital system.  Italy reports its healthcare system is on the brink of failure. Six of one/half dozen of another.  But, you're entitled to your opinion, Cobber.  But I think we'll still be living with this for at least another year.  And it won't disappear... it will remain in the news and in the uppermost consciousness of those of us who don't believe this is all one big hoax.

Saying millions will be ready to go is impressive.  But there are over 330,000,000 in the U.S. alone.  I doubt that Pfizer will limit itself to selling a vaccine with such efficacy to the U.S. alone.  It's still going to be six to 12 months before enough are vaccinated for herd immunity to kick in.  

One quarter of all US cases have shown up in November - and the month isn’t over yet. The line on the graph is getting awful steep for something that is going away.