How normal do you think life will be in 12 months?

[Daisiesarecute]

Do you think the pandemic will have been declared over by this time next year?

I think we'll be coming out the other side of it.

Vaccination programme will be sorted on the rolling basis.

Variants will have decreased as its evolved as much as it genetically can (btw I have no scientific knowledge I'm just guessing that will happen 🤣)

Employers will be better at accepting absence and sick leave and hopefully we'll have a better sickness policy from government. It's awful watching families have to choose between working whilst ill or feeding themselves.

Test and trace will work efficiently because numbers are low and any outbreaks will be caught early. And general transmission won't exist.

We may still have certain criteria for mass gatherings with regards testing etc or we may still need to log ourselves into venues for test and trace.

But pandemics usually burn out after 2 years so I think after another challenging winter we'll be in a much better place.

@ThereWasThisBoy

I think we’ll still have some restrictions, masks etc.

I just hope the situation in places such as India and Brazil are much improved. Their situation is heartbreaking.

In India several hundred thousand children under 5 die each year of diarrhoeal related illnesses. Many, many more than will likely die of Covid this year. Why do people have this weird fixation of developed on Covid deaths.

savethegrannies

I’m not weirdly fixated on covid deaths. 🙄 I’m probably more aware than most of other causes of deaths. But were talking about covid here which on top of what poorer countries are dealing with already, does make their situation worse.
The fact is that if covid was only in places like India, most people here wouldn’t care.

India is a massive country with 1.4 billion people. In terms of population v cases they are not suffering a massive out break. The issue is it’s localised and they don’t habe the facilities to deal with it in this locations. People are misunderstanding the issue due to crap reporting.

People are misunderstanding the issue due to crap reporting.

Some might be. Although I’m not getting my information from news reports. Many people have family and friends that live there, the situation is very bad.

@Bluntness100

India is a massive country with 1.4 billion people. In terms of population v cases they are not suffering a massive out break. The issue is it’s localised and they don’t habe the facilities to deal with it in this locations. People are misunderstanding the issue due to crap reporting.

No, sadly not easy to explain it away. It is a really bad situation and looks to be escalating with cases doubling every five days.