Feb 2022 is when they started transitioning from pcr's for everyone to home tests.
May 2023 is when they declared an "end to the public emergency" and ended the emergency and stopped requiring hospitals to test people.
This year they stopped requiring hospitals to report much of anything.
I guess this is just how it's going to be from now on, and we'll have to figure out what damage it's doing by analyzing excess death rates
BTW many parts of the US (Hawaii and SF, and my little town apparently) and world are experiencing a pretty sizeable covid surge at the moment. Most likely from the FLiRT variant, and there is also a different variant coming up called kp.3, so that's fun.
Yeah, capitalism created the conditions necessary for a new endemic disease. It's forever a part of the human environment untill after a global revolution/rebuilding and advancement in how we treat medicine in general.
Endemic means predictable seasonal patterns, which isn't happening because of our constant mass incubation of new mutations. The pandemic phase won't end until universal zero covid is implemented by communists, or a magic sterilizing vaccine covering all possible variants appears