Return to Normalcy

[Anonymous]

I think next year things will begin to return to normal, maybe during the summer.
Why?
I hope we have a new president. This will mean we'll have more targeted fast testing, which will quickly pin point hot spots, and stamp out any flare ups.
This will mean most of us can go back to normal life. Movies, etc.
I think there will be a cell phone app that will read your results from a rapid test, so you'll be allowed to go into stores, movie theaters, etc. How this will work so people don't switch phones, etc., I don't know, maybe a fingerprint ID system?
Vaccines will start to appear, but it will take time to get most people vaccinated, and to find out if there are any side effects that are dangerous.
Many of the new vaccines will only be 50% effective, so people will still have to wear masks and socially distance.
I think 4-5 years before things really return to "normal", but I may be optimistic. We may never return to the way things were here back in February 2020.
There are so many unknowns. The virus may mutate to the point where it's no longer infectious, or only causes a common cold, nothing nefarious or fatal.
Or the virus may be with us forever, like flu, with different strains circulating throughout the world.
We may need annual covid vaxes in addition to flu vaxes.
BUT given that covid is so much more dangerous than flu, we may still have to wear masks and socially distance if we are not armed with daily rapid tests we can show everywhere we go.
A treatment may appear (like penicillin in the 1940s) that will end the illness.
This all depends on a DEMOCRAT in the White House leading and sending appropriate funding to the correct areas, based on scientific research and advice from experts who actually know what they are talking about.
Pray Biden wins, else this scourge will continue, deaths will increase...no, no no no no

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Random benign questions I have:

- when will Trader Joe's allow baskets again?
- How long are all the SOCIAL DISTANCING!!!!1111 signs going to remain? We know. But how long are the signs going to be everywhere?
- when will the Whole Foods hot food bar come back? Will it ever come back?
- who bought stock in plexiglass, and can you share?

The signs drive me nuts. We are all aware, thank you.

Actually, you’d be surprised how many ppl aren’t aware. See if every single day.

Yup. People can't or won't follow the arrows on the floor. Even when there are big spots on the floor for standing people just cannot seem to do it. What is interesting is that the people in the line for the food boxes are super good and distancing and waiting patiently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who is a hospitalist and has worked with Covid patients. She predicts 3 years before schools can reopen and have a normal life back. I was surprised by that but she would know better than me what to expect.

Your friend sounds clueless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Random benign questions I have:

- when will Trader Joe's allow baskets again?
- How long are all the SOCIAL DISTANCING!!!!1111 signs going to remain? We know. But how long are the signs going to be everywhere?
- when will the Whole Foods hot food bar come back? Will it ever come back?
- who bought stock in plexiglass, and can you share?

Which baskets? My Trader Joe's has hand baskets and carts. OR are you referring to something else?

If God is Good, never.

Which TJs? Springfield and Old Town have yet to see baskets make a comeback. I hate getting a cart when I'm just, say, stocking up on 10 seaweed snacks. Too much to carry, but ridiculous for a cart.

Tysons (Pimmit Hills . . . you have to slum it by DCUM standards).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who is a hospitalist and has worked with Covid patients. She predicts 3 years before schools can reopen and have a normal life back. I was surprised by that but she would know better than me what to expect.

Your friend sounds clueless.

what’s your area of expertise?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who is a hospitalist and has worked with Covid patients. She predicts 3 years before schools can reopen and have a normal life back. I was surprised by that but she would know better than me what to expect.

Your friend sounds clueless.

+1

Just because someone is a "hospitalist and had worked with COVID patients" doesn't make them an epidemiologist. There is no way we will make it 3 yrs without school. Private school are functioning just fine right now. No reason public schools can't get their acts together and get kids back in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who is a hospitalist and has worked with Covid patients. She predicts 3 years before schools can reopen and have a normal life back. I was surprised by that but she would know better than me what to expect.

Your friend sounds clueless.

Agree. I would trust a mathematician or epidemiologist on certain estimates, not a hospitalist. Similar to how an epidemiologist would not administer medication.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Random benign questions I have:

- when will Trader Joe's allow baskets again?
- How long are all the SOCIAL DISTANCING!!!!1111 signs going to remain? We know. But how long are the signs going to be everywhere?
- when will the Whole Foods hot food bar come back? Will it ever come back?
- who bought stock in plexiglass, and can you share?

The signs drive me nuts. We are all aware, thank you.

Actually, you’d be surprised how many ppl aren’t aware. See if every single day.

Yup. People can't or won't follow the arrows on the floor. Even when there are big spots on the floor for standing people just cannot seem to do it. What is interesting is that the people in the line for the food boxes are super good and distancing and waiting patiently.

The arrows were dumb and I think we've all agreed we're not doing those anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who is a hospitalist and has worked with Covid patients. She predicts 3 years before schools can reopen and have a normal life back. I was surprised by that but she would know better than me what to expect.

My kids will be in private school Fall 2021 if public school is not 5 days a week. We are not rich, nor are we “private school people.” 3 years of distance learning will decimate a public school system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who is a hospitalist and has worked with Covid patients. She predicts 3 years before schools can reopen and have a normal life back. I was surprised by that but she would know better than me what to expect.

Your friend sounds clueless.

I agree. She sounds unhinged, MD or not. We can’t keep kids out of school for three years over a low mortality virus that barely affects them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Random benign questions I have:

- when will Trader Joe's allow baskets again?
- How long are all the SOCIAL DISTANCING!!!!1111 signs going to remain? We know. But how long are the signs going to be everywhere?
- when will the Whole Foods hot food bar come back? Will it ever come back?
- who bought stock in plexiglass, and can you share?

Hot food bar at our local Whole Foods is back!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who is a hospitalist and has worked with Covid patients. She predicts 3 years before schools can reopen and have a normal life back. I was surprised by that but she would know better than me what to expect.

I would rather be dead than live like this for three years. So not worth it. People will be homeless, unemployed, bored, hopeless and suicidal. This is not sustainable for more than another six months for most people, maybe less. We can’t destroy billions of lives long term over a 1% mortality virus that half the infected people don’t even know they have. That would go down as the single most stupid move in history.

[Anonymous]

Health 15-50 yo Summer 2021
Healthy 1-14 yo 50-60 yo fall 2021, some more dense areas Winter 2022

0-1, Old and Unhealthy ... Fall 2022

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Health 15-50 yo Summer 2021
Healthy 1-14 yo 50-60 yo fall 2021, some more dense areas Winter 2022

0-1, Old and Unhealthy ... Fall 2022

Why? Older people will be in one of the first groups to be vaccinated, and there will not be much enthusiasm among them for spending two more of their golden years in lockdown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Random benign questions I have:

- when will Trader Joe's allow baskets again?
- How long are all the SOCIAL DISTANCING!!!!1111 signs going to remain? We know. But how long are the signs going to be everywhere?
- when will the Whole Foods hot food bar come back? Will it ever come back?
- who bought stock in plexiglass, and can you share?

Which baskets? My Trader Joe's has hand baskets and carts. OR are you referring to something else?

If God is Good, never.

Which TJs? Springfield and Old Town have yet to see baskets make a comeback. I hate getting a cart when I'm just, say, stocking up on 10 seaweed snacks. Too much to carry, but ridiculous for a cart.

baskets today at TJs in Falls Church