Will things ever return to normal? It doesnโt look that way right now.
Ah, bullshit. The SARS-Cov-2 virus isnโt infinitely adaptable; it has no plan. We have vaccines, good ones. We can create more. Natural immunity also seems to last quite a while.
Thus, the pandemic will end. Our stupidity has artificially extended it, and I fully expect a surge in fall and winter. The โexpertsโ will predict another mega-surge of doom for spring and summer 2022, but this will never materialize. After that the pandemic will mostly peter out. The whole time, though, those same โexpertsโ will be doom-mongering and working closely with the plutes to try to keep us all hiding inside.
And thatโs they way itโll be. The pandemic will be over, mostly, by spring of 2022 though the blue state scoldy people will take far longer to let it go.