Do you think it will be calmed down by the summer?

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Just that really.

It depends, if we close schools now then yes but it will just come back even worse in September.

No - to start with the government is persisting with "advice" and look how many people on here are taking perverse pleasure in saying "fuck you, I will do what I WANT"

No I think it will be autumn by the earliest

Yes, I do.

I think it will have calmed down in five or six months but apparently it’s expected to still be prevalent for up to a year. I guess it depends on everyone doing what is recommended -and reading threads on here, sadly there are many people who think they know better than the experts and who intend to do their own thing, probably extending the virus.

I have t noticed that, just people asking questions. Not surprising as understandingly little detail was given.

No - some scientists think we will be in this position until Spring 2021. There was a a Guardian article on this recently.

I think it will depend on a lot of currently unknown variables. How quickly they can identify treatments that work, whether people are immune after contracting the virus and for how long, how quickly they can produce a test that identifies if you have had the virus (perhaps mildly or asymptomaticly) and how widely available that test will be, how many people have the virus mildly or asymptomaticly across the population, how quickly a vaccine can be produced as examples.

I think we will have a very, very difficult 3 months minimum, 6 months realistically. I suspect 18 months to 2 years before a return to full “normal” whatever that looks like.

I had a dream about this bloody virus last night - and in it I read online how life had gone back to normal by next week!

Shame it was only a dream... this will go on for a long while yet.

A big secondary nearby is closed for the foreseeable as not enough staff in school to cover classes. I imagine more schools will have to follow suit regardless as to whether schools are officially told to close.

I bloody hope it will, I cannot self medicate with longer than that.

No. Everyone is saying Spring 2021 at the very earliest.

i read something about a covid for next year

a vaccine was being worked on so i dont think it will go for a while. it may mutate?

They're saying spring 2021 as the worst case scenario. Stop fear mongering

As a PP said, there are too many variables right now to predict. Even best case I don't think it will be over by summer.

Predictions of spring 2021 seem to be the more realistic, provided no resistant mutations or other unpredictable events.

Aren’t they saying it’ll reach the peak in 3 months - so June time. So it can’t go on for another year / 18 months if the peak is June. Or can it? 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s already calming down in China. Have to see if it stays that way. If we follow similar pattern, cases will start decreasing a month from now.

Spring next year is the worst case scenario as spouted by the Daily Mail.

The scaremongering is getting out of control on MN.

For a website where everyone professes to hate the Mail it seems everyone gets their information there.

To an extent. I don't think what is being done now can be sustained (I'm talking about other countries, mainly.)

It's part of my job to read press cuttings @chardonnay so unfortunately I have to see these ridiculous news stories every day. Believe me if I could avoid the Daily Mail I would.

We can’t keep doing that for months and months.

Eventually we’ll have to accept it’s around and get on with life again.

I must admit a look at the bar of shame there, so I’m loath to grow stones, glass house and all that, but I honestly try to take their news stories with a pinch of salt.

It’s already calming down in China. Have to see if it stays that way. If we follow similar pattern, cases will start decreasing a month from now.

But the restrictions in China were much harsher than in the UK. While Boris and co. refuse to enforce any kind of decent isolation and lockdown measures, who knows how far this will spread?

I’m not sure how scientifically correct the Washington post simulation are, but they are very interesting to see.