When Will the Spreading of Coronavirus Become Normal?

No such thing as normal anymore.

Just varying degrees of. New normal.

Social distancing I think is here to stay. Certainly for the time being until 100% vaccination coverage is completed.

Then maybe flights and travel restrictions might be eased.

However, if you were in charge of New Zealand and a few other places, would you want foreigners in your country for the foreseeable future?

Specific Questions:

Perhaps you meant to ask, When is COVID-19 going to become normal? It already is. This is the now part of the new normal.

Coronaviruses: A Global Companion

Coronaviruses have been with us for thousands of years. SARS-CoV-2 is the new coronavirus strain that causes the COVID-19. COVID-19 is the actual disease. Coronavirus is just the latest buzz word because the vast majority of the people in the world had never heard of coronaviruses before.

There are at least hundreds, probably thousands, of coronavirus strains out there in the world. Most are benign and don’t infect or affect humans. However, some coronaviruses do cause common colds and other ailments, though most of those ailments are more annoying and inconvenient than life-threatening.

Reflecting on the response from George Wiseman, below, he appears to be unaware of the unique nature of the immune response to SARS-CoV-2. Unlike the immune response to most other common pathogens, there are very few other pathogens that attack and damage so many of the body’s systems.

Does he know of any other pathogen that directly attacks the vascular system, the pancreas, or causes such widespread damage to the various systems in the human body? I think not.

Sorry young one…welcome to the new normal.

Certainly, life will be more like normal when the transmission of the virus falls to very low levels.

Optimism Amidst Pandemic

I’m feeling optimistic today. The sheltering-in-place has kind of shown its reasonableness/importance in the US. There are a number of reasonably safe, effective vaccines, and a significant proportion of the population is willing to entertain taking the vaccine.

We also have more immune people due to recovery from the recent huge peak. The silver lining of the recent massive infection wave is that we now have a pool of immune individuals, and soon we will be joining them.

The rest of us, dear Joe’s, will be getting the vaccines in April/May. I don’t count the recent decline of the pandemic as anything other than the normal eb and flow of a pandemic. Barring a monster variant arising by 2022, we should see a real decline in the rate of infection. Fewer than one person becoming infected per each infected person, along with a gradual relaxing of restrictions.

Perhaps a significant return to normal might finally happen by the end of 2022. Be well.