One of three things needs to happen:
1. A vaccine
2. A cure
3. Deaths stop
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I think its more granular than that...
1. ease of testing - i.e. @ Walgreen’s/CVS
2. ease of getting meds - i.e. teledoc
3. perhaps comfortably with masks for a time til there is a vaccine.
We don’t know if there will ever be a vaccine.
Tony Fauci has been seeking an AIDS vaccine for over thirty years without success. It’s not the sort of thing you can just magically pull out of your posterior.
18 months would be a record shattering time, and frankly I’d have concerns that it was really half-assed and rushed to market to save face.