That's not quite what endemic means.

Endemic: .
(of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.
"complacency is endemic in industry today"
2.
(of a plant or animal) native and restricted to a certain place.
"a marsupial endemic to northeastern Australia"
noun
an endemic plant or animal.
"there are three types of island endemics"

I was using it in the first sense. With nearly half the population having had it, its regularly found.

I hope you're right and I'm wrong, but I feel it's blind optimism, my friend.

It's out there, beyond the human population, mixing with lots of other species and all the viruses they carry, including at least two hemorrhagic fevers in the rabbit population and the pork industry as well as all the exotic influenzas that we can't handle.

The worst of the worst viruses are ones that jumped species and recombined with something already in the target species.

We just souped up one of the most recombinant viruses known and set it loose on the world because we didn't want to wear a mask and have turned against vaccines.

As far as I've seen the universal vaccine isn't taking that into account.

We will be very lucky if this virus doesn't continually recombine with all sorts of other bugs and hit us again and again and again. We'll be lucky if we ever get ahead of it at all.

Because we refused to properly quarantine. We wouldn't wear a mask. We believed antiVax propaganda from fringe lunatics.