I sincerely think Covid is now just being used to decrease carbon emissions by having everyone work from home or at least not exit houses as much due to mass hysteria of "yet another variant". Viruses of all kinds will keep trying to kill us regardless if we call it the flu or covid, if we keep everyone scared to exit their houses they will invariably use less resources from the world.

So yeah, a world free of covid isn't on anyone's best interest.