Covid-19 will gradually become endemic but it will not be eradicated . Covid will then be a familiar, manageable enemy, like the flu. Although the destination is fixed, the route to endemicity is not. The difference between a well-planned journey and a chaotic one could be measured in millions of lives. The end of the pandemic is therefore a last chance for governments to show they have learned from the mistakes they made at its start. All pandemics end eventually. Covid-19 has started down that path, How long do you expect the pandemic to last ?