Will we return to normalcy at some point?

[Initech]

Will there be any scenario in which life can return to normal? Where we can go on flights and take vacations, go to concerts and sporting events? And go back to work and school in regular workplaces and classrooms? Or is isolation and self distancing the new normal? Are we in this for the long run and something much scarier abounds? Or will we find a cure and help put a stop to this? I really want to know when life will return to normal.

I feel like there is nothing good in the news right now and I just want something that says that we are going to be on the right path to stop COVID-19.

[LisaL]

1. When they develop a vaccine, treatments or those of us who don't die get herd immunity.

[tirebiter]

2. Never soon enough

But that’s normal.

[WhiteTara]

3. there is no normalcy at the end of the world. nt

[walkingman]

4. IMO - to get back to normal we would need to go to 1972. Good music and hippie chicks!

[Baclava]

5. Sure, we're about a week or so behind Italy so give it a month for the wave to peak then pass

Its going to run its course and there's nothing to do but stay out of its way as best u can

[ornotna]

6. Jan 20th

Is probably the soonest it can happen.

Till then, we're fooked.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Yes, we will. How soon, who knows?

But even a year from now this lockdown won't still be in place.

[meadowlander]

8. Yes.

We got through 9/11 and the Global Financial Crisis and two World Wars and the Great Depression and the Spanish Flu. HIV was eventually brought under control.

Nixon was eventually impeached. Hitler shot himself in a grubby bunker. Mussolini was hung and dragged through the streets.

The system will strain and even break in a few places and a lot of people will be hurt or die (and Trump's incompetence will make it worse) but this too will pass.

[Flaleftist]

9. Yes, once there is a vaccine.

This might go on for a while. These temporary closures might go on longer than some anticipate. But with the whole world being affected in this way, hopefully enough research will go into it and it will come sooner than the 12-18 months that some scientists predict.

[GulfCoast66]

10. The minute Joe Biden is sworn in.

[defacto7]

11. When this ends nothing will ever be the same...

But eventually there will be a new normal..

[Initech]

13. This must be what people living in the Avengers world felt like after the "Snap".

COVID-19 will be thought of as a "blip" and those who got saved will get saved and those who won't, well...

[uponit7771]

17. +1

[Raine]

12. Yes but

it will probably be a new normal being more careful about germs and crowds which wouldn't be a bad thing, the question is when it will be.

[JCMach1]

14. Economic impact will last far longer than the virus

[canetoad]

15. A couple of vaccine candidates are in testing

But even if they are successful, will that signal a return to 'normal'?

I crave normal as much as you do. The world has changed. We'd better get used to the fact that this is the new normal and we need to adapt or die.

[Yavin4]

16. Vote all of the Republicans out of office every where and we will return to normal

Do not limit it to just Trump. They ALL have to go. NOW!!!

[scarytomcat]

18. no but a new normal will happen

Maybe we can rethink our place in the world and stop messing it up

[spanone]

19. Not as long as trump sits in the WH

[kentuck]

20. With some certainty, you can say we will never return to normalcy under Donald Trump.

Take that to the bank.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. Hopefully, things will get back to normal after the next election.