The End Of The COVID-19 Pandemic

What do we have to look forward to?

Stock photos for the end are, surprisingly, mostly just signage. Source: Pexels

After more than a year of the pandemic, everyone is ready for this to end. It’s just exhausting. The lockdowns, the reopenings, the constant turmoil about what this will mean for our jobs and lives. The ever-present fear that the worst will happen to ourselves or someone we know and love.

I’ve gotta say: pandemics are no fun.

Stock photos for “pandemic” on the other hand can be surprisingly cheery. Source: Pexels

Fortunately, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccines are here, and they’re already being rolled out across the globe, with hundreds of millions getting safety injected into their arms already.

But that raises the question: what will the world look like when this is all over? What happens when a pandemic has run its path?

Bangs and Whimpers

The first thing I should say is that this is all speculation. We really haven’t seen the end of a global pandemic on this scale for 100 years, and in the globalized world of the 2020s whatever we do see is probably going to be pretty different to anything that came before.