When will life return to normal?

[MumOfAToddler26]

I know no one knows the answer to that but what will it take for us to get our old life's back to normal again?
No social distancing in place and going out and being next to people without thinking about it.
Surely they can't keep us like this indefinitely we will have to be able to get back to normal soon?
Nightclubs (not that I go to them) theatre shows and concerts are just some of the things that you can't social distance for, I just keep thinking about it all today and can't see an end to it 😭😭 x

Remember this is "the new norm". Life as we knew it has dissipated into thin air.

I don't see it ever getting back to how it was anytime soon. At least not in 2020/21.

I know this is the new normal but will we not be able to hug parents or our children hug and hold hands with their grandparents indefinitely?! It's so depressing not seeing any end to it 😭 x

I think the queues and distancing will be here for a good two years

It’ll have to be at some point. We can’t live like this for ever. I give it a few more months and then we all just need to take our chances with the virus. It’s not worth it to carry on like this.

It will eventually. People will naturally drift back. Maybe next year.

I've given up hope now tbh. Awful crap life

When there are no new cases?

You can hug people, there's no law against it. If you're both low risk then just do it.

I think complete normality will resume in first half of 2021. The shielding and vulnerable will be vaccinated by then. I'm feeling optimistic! (I work in big pharma)

We will return to normal but it will take time, virus's have a lifespan, they mutate (normally as they become more virulent they dilute) it's not in a viruses interest to kill off its hosts as it would kill itself so it adapts to keep its hosts alive. I think over time it will either become like one of the common corona viruses that we encounter every year or burn out like SARS and MERS.
Even if we don't find a vaccine, treatments and understanding of the disease is progressing at a phenomenal pace so even if you are very ill you will be treated And recover.
This will pass

If an or a set of antiviral drugs are proven to reduce symptoms or an effective vaccine is found.

This isn't "the new normal." Sick of that phrase. Life will return to normal, just as it has after every pandemic in history. It might take a while, that's all.

Well New Zealand is completely back to normal, with the exception of their closed borders. But they have no social distancing, and everything is open, mass gatherings etc.

It's slowly getting there but until there's a vaccine it can't go back to normal.

It will happen though. NZ shows us that!

I don’t think anyone is keeping us like this now. I think a fear has set in and not sure it’ll ever pass now, or not at least for a long time or in the current generation. Can you imagine greeting a stranger with a handshake will happen again anytime soon?

If shopping in our local Asda store is anything to go by ,it seems to be getting worse !!!
Tesco and a few other stores seem to be relaxing but Asda just seem to be going to the extreme . I went in today for the first time because I generally shop in Tesco and I couldn't believe how regiment it still was. Our local Tesco Extra you don't even have to queue now most of the week , they are telling you to social distance yourself.

Imagine what it's gonna be like at Xmas if this carries on 😱
And I'm back to work on the 30th when our store opens and dreading it , I just want normal life to resume now ! I've had to shield due to low immune system and I'm being sent back to work so is it getting better ? Who knows !

I know no one knows the answer to that but what will it take for us to get our old life's back to normal again?

If people are expecting an announcement in one of the daily sermons that says as of next Monday it's all back to normal, no distancing required and all the other effort that goes with it, well we all know that will never happen. Johnson or whoever is wheeled out just aren't going to do that. If they they did, a proportion of people will be saying "what's changed then?" or "oh no, I don't believe you, it's not safe".

People will probably make their own decisions on what they are going to do, as they are already. If their particular group are happy not to distance, that's what they will do. Also, there will only be so long before employers give people a choice, back to work in the office or lose your job, it's their only choice to keep a business going.

The problem is the government have frightened a fair proportion of the country to death and don't know how to get out of it. The media have done this to a greater extent, but want it to continue as it makes great headlines for them.

Anyone saying they will only go back to their normal when a vaccine is available, could be waiting a long time, there may never be one.

Nothing will be normal again until there's a vaccine.

I hope lessons have been learned and, if this ever happens again, that the government don't fuck it up so badly.

Depends on your version of normal.

I can't see anyone vulnerable wanting a hug anytime soon. I can't see theatres reopening. I can't imagine why people would get on a plane right now, or a cruise or even a packed tube.

The biggest recession in a century or more and mental health impact is yet to come.

Sorry but you did ask.

The pandemic is set to rampage through India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia...

Nothing is going back to normal.

I can't see anyone vulnerable wanting a hug anytime soon.

I do!! And have been.

Going by the letter sent to me about shielding, I shouldn't touch or even sleep with my wife or hug my children. What kind of life is that? Not that my eldest would want a hug, but my youngest does and he gets one.

Where are we on the Nando's scale?

The 2.5 million people who have been advised to shield are mentioned as participation acting again in left when we are at Level,1.

So unless you do not see the most vulnerable as worthy members of society, the there is a defined point already laid out.

Is it 3 or 4 we are on now?

Through all the changes I have been thinking a lot about the low risk people who are single and before this happened they were trying to meet people to perhaps settle down and have kids.
So if this goes on indefinitely, I think there will be a revolt, or most low risk people will just abandon it and start mixing without distancing again.

Pigeon 999 Well watching people on the tube recently ,seems there are quite a few people wanting to travel this way! Also Our friend works for a large hotel/coach group for UK holidays ,and they are inundated with bookings for July/August this year!

When they drop social distancing, that's when things will be normal. I can't wait!