When will life go back to normal

Law and order will have to break down first. Governments are not giving back a lot of their "emergency powers". I often ask in the restrictions thread. Under what circumstances do you believe that the NPHET/Government will agree to lifting all restrictions?

Masks during winter are here forever. If Covid disappeared and a government is getting hammered over flu season, they'll bring in mask mandates to pretend they are doing something about it. This **** is here for life. They are chasing zero Covid.

Unless as I said, Law and Order breaks down.

I'm afraid richard hillman is probably right. we're fvcked really.

The hope will be some country will lead the way and fully open up and accept that less than 0.3% of the population will die from it each and every year forever. Get people to understand that a healthy lifestyle will reduce their risks of being in this 0.3%.

Self pity is not never the best option.

I don't think life will ever go back 100% to how it was before this thing, at least in the terms you asked in your post.

Masks will be here for a long time, if not forever, and most restrictions and hygiene rules will never go away. People will talk and think of covid forever, and the suspicion that someone next to you on the bus, or in line with you at the checkout, might have a virus of any kind will never disappear, so you'd better keep some distance. Touching stuff and reaching for the hand sanitizers right away will be the norm.

Vaccines will be forever, twice a year, along with the vaccination cert to be shown wherever we go.

This will be our future life, the new norm, not the old one, nothing that resembles what it was until January 2020.

Source?

whats normal? theres a while left with this wee virus

yes the cert is a key component in "getting" people to take the boosters otherwise the passes will expire.

Yes, I know, because I did post the same stuff a year ago and earlier this year and I was warned and told I was crazy and untrustful of science.

Well, here we are, a year later and my predictions weren't so far from reality, unfortunately.

Everything is in for a good few years to come. Too many variables. Like potentially new variants, rise in cases, icu numbers.

Not until a vaccine that fully prevents contraction of the virus is developed or an easily accessible medication that treats and eradicates the virus at the first sign of symptom - there will never be a return pre-pandemic times until then - and even then a lot of changes will have become the new normal, and a lot for the better - working from home etc.

the virus is mild if not completely inconsequential to a healthy vaccinated or recovered person.

Come next winter nearly all anti vaxxers should have caught the disease so be somewhat immune (or dead) and along with almost universal vaccination of the older people in Ireland , there'll not be much of an issue at all.

Depends what country you're in?

Been to the UK lately?

Median age of 52 and only 1/3 of whom have no known underlying conditions - hardly young fit and healthy.