When will life go back to normal

NO cancer is ‘entirely’ preventable, no heart disease either...you can lower the risk factors only.

you can engage in a lifestyle that lessens your chance of developing these conditions... I know of one non smoker who died of lung cancer. My cousin last year, he was 52.

you can get lung cancer having never smoked a day in your life...

researching it....

15% of male lung cancer patients are never smokers.

45% of female lung cancer patients are never smokers.

my grandfather died at I think 52.. massive heart attack, non smoker, non drinker... in fact he was a pioneer all his life...

Yes,the UK,that's who we need to look to.

They're doing a great job on Covid and on all other fronts these days.

52 is the new 44

Covid is as preventable as cancer and heart disease - your habits and lifestyle can mitigate it, but even if you take all precautions you can still get cancer (same for covid).

We dont lament ICU filling with flu patients yearly either, and castigate them for catching a "preventable" illness?

What about car crash victims? Sure if they didnt drive that night, they wouldnt need ICU treatment. Preventable my hole

Calling the UK back to normal is pushing it but at least there is not the limbo that plagues Ireland. Moved from Dublin to London in August and I have not looked back since.

And from who??

I THINK this is the new normal. Every death will be treated like a car accident. Need to open up, and go full steam ahead.

There is no answer, all we can do is create a 1000 more icu beds, as we'll need them. In a covid world you need a covid hospital, build a new hospital with 2000 general beds.

If it is to be believed, it is because China is an authoritarian regime far beyond anything we see in the west. They have tight control over borders and no political opposition, so they can lock down and disappear whoever they like.

Late Spring, Summer and early Autumn should return to normal or very close to normal soon unless we have a variant that evades immunity. Albeit masks (in public transport and retail) and social distancing (in offices etc) might need a few years before that happens in these seasons.

Every Winter, for the foreseeable future, we need an "adjustment" by society. That adjustment is likely to be mandatory WFH for Winter, masks and a lot of people choosing to avoid large gatherings.

As Bot1 mentions above:

"There is no going back. We are living through history at the moment.

It's all about adapting and going with it, which is what society has always done."

IMHO wishing we were back in 2019 is wasted energy, its not happening, not now, not ever. We might get close to how we were, but there's always going to be some part of life, however large or trivial, that's different to what it was. Whether its masks, covid jabs, vaccine certs, whatever, some things are just going to be different. There's never been a world event that hasn't led to permanent change.

Estonia has a large neighbour with weapons that is also an old coloniser that'd like it back. Huge risk unless Putin and his politics are replaced.