This is such a mishmash of an article, Umair, I don't really know where to start. But first you should stop panicking.

This is a very mild pandemic. It's never killed more than 1% of people who get it and that number has gone down as more people are vaccinated. Vaccination has broken the link between covid19 and intensive care and death. This is a good thing.

We were never going to get rid of covid19 completely. It's a coronavirus: it mutates slowly but it mutates. There are numerous animals that can get it and pass it on. It has a long latency of between 3-5 days and a high incidence of symptomless infections. Possibly it hides out in the bodies of people with long covid. You can't stop a disease like that once it's gone global.

Big Pharma is going to be very disappointed about how much money it can make from anti-covid vacccines because as the susceptible die or get vaccinated the virus will have to choose between virulence and infectivity. It will probably choose infectivity, just like the last coronavirus that jumped species in 1890, just before the outbreak of Russian flu. Now Russian flu is just a normal coronavirus giving us a cold every so often. Easily caught but not nearly so dangerous.

You're right about the idiocy of billionaires.

You may be right about why Covirax is such a failure at getting the poor of the world jabbed.

You're right that the world is burning and we have to stop it, which is hampered by covid19.

When is panic a useful response to a crisis?

NEVER!