A meme from future history

hopefully it will end in 2023 because the plague took 3-4 years

At least 7, it looks like, and of course it recurred again and again for centuries.

The 1918 pandemic lasted 4 years

Well, that's probably a better baseline for the Coronavirus than the plague.

Yeah, and the 1918 pandemic actually finished with a variant of H1N1 (the type of influenza it was) that was less deadly, but more transmissible, which is what we're seeing in the omicron variant.

*fingers crossed* I hope so, too. It sounds like we don't have enough information on Omicron yet. This article had some useful cautions:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/covid-cases-omicron-highly-contagious/621038/