Coronavirus: So after I’m vaccinated, can I just return to normal life?

No. Sorry. You can’t. First of all, you’re going to need two shots. After your first shot, you’re not fully vaccinated. Second of all, after your second shot it’s going to take awhile for you to get maximum immunity. Third of all, we don’t know yet if these vaccines simply prevent people from getting the symptoms of Covid or actually stop the spread of the virus from one person to the next. They might, but we don’t know. So you do not want to be walking around feeling fine and breathing viruses all over people who haven’t gotten vaccinated yet, or people who can’t get vaccinated.

Any thoughts, then, on when normal life will return?

This is an experience that none of us has gone through before, so we’re not going to get the kind of precise timetable that we might want. But Tony Fauci has talked about life getting back to normal by late 2021. But that comes with a big asterisk — that timetable will depend on at least 75 percent of the country getting vaccinated promptly.
Resurgences

Much of England will swap lockdown for less stringent coronavirus restrictions, after Parliament approved new rules today.
Vietnam suspended commercial flights, two days after its first case in 89 days was confirmed.
After a Franciscan convent in northern Germany without a single known Covid-19 case tested its 161 nuns, 76 of the tests came back positive, signaling a potentially dangerous cluster in a religious community with many elderly members.

Here’s a roundup of restrictions in all 50 states.
What else we’re following

Vaccines are coming, but two dozen experts told The Times’s Donald G. McNeil Jr. that the coming months “are going to be just horrible.”
A consensus is emerging that in-person teaching with young children is safer than with older ones.
Facing a dangerous spike in cases among lawmakers, Congress’s attending physician asked members to steer clear of public receptions, stay in Washington and keep masks on even when speaking on the House and Senate floors.
When the New Hampshire Legislature — the largest in the country — assembles on Wednesday to begin its new session, it will do so outdoors, for the sake of coronavirus safety.
In the post-Covid economy, old jobs may not be coming back, especially in the service industries.
The Atlantic suggests that “pods” mean different things to different people, so you may want to hammer out the details with your bubble as we head indoors for winter.
Me: Sounds like the Pharmaceutical Companies are going to double dip, cost wise and if you don’t get the vaccines for free, how much will each shot cost you, in advance?
Will this become a case of those who can afford the costs, get the vaccine and those who can’t, don’t and in that scenario, there won’t be any ending to Coronavirus any time soon.
Would I want MS-13 or the Crips and the Bloods to get vaccine shots, for example, well no!!