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Flaleftist

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9. Yes, once there is a vaccine.

Reply to Initech (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2020, 12:15 AM

Mar 2020

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.

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Will we return to normalcy at some point? [View all] Initech Mar 2020 OP

When they develop a vaccine, treatments or those of us who don't die get herd immunity. LisaL Mar 2020 #1

Never soon enough tirebiter Mar 2020 #2

there is no normalcy at the end of the world. nt WhiteTara Mar 2020 #3

IMO - to get back to normal we would need to go to 1972. Good music and hippie chicks! walkingman Mar 2020 #4

Sure, we're about a week or so behind Italy so give it a month for the wave to peak then pass Baclava Mar 2020 #5

Jan 20th ornotna Mar 2020 #6

Yes, we will. How soon, who knows? PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2020 #7

Yes. meadowlander Mar 2020 #8

Yes, once there is a vaccine. Flaleftist Mar 2020 #9

The minute Joe Biden is sworn in. GulfCoast66 Mar 2020 #10

When this ends nothing will ever be the same... defacto7 Mar 2020 #11

This must be what people living in the Avengers world felt like after the "Snap". Initech Mar 2020 #13

+1 uponit7771 Mar 2020 #17

Yes but Raine Mar 2020 #12

Economic impact will last far longer than the virus JCMach1 Mar 2020 #14

A couple of vaccine candidates are in testing canetoad Mar 2020 #15

Vote all of the Republicans out of office every where and we will return to normal Yavin4 Mar 2020 #16

no but a new normal will happen scarytomcat Mar 2020 #18

Not as long as trump sits in the WH spanone Mar 2020 #19

With some certainty, you can say we will never return to normalcy under Donald Trump. kentuck Mar 2020 #20

Hopefully, things will get back to normal after the next election. JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 2020 #21