This is wishful thinking from an introvert. People haven't practiced long term social distancing after the Spanish flu, or the plague. The Spanish flu didn't "d

This is wishful thinking from an introvert. People haven't practiced long term social distancing after the Spanish flu, or the plague. The Spanish flu didn't "disappear", it simply mutated into common forms of flu we know today. In practice virulent diseases tend to get less virulent over time so that they can spread more easily. The plague epidemics of the 19th century were also less virulent than the Black Plague. We're already seeing it with SARS-CoV-2 - there are two strains, S and L, the latter of which is significantly more virulent and also losing ground. So the likely conclusion is that SARS-CoV-2 is here to stay, but probably not at the fatality rates we're currently experiencing.