COVID may stay around as an endemic, circulating virus - but at the same time, it will recede in impact. Eventually, nearly everyone will have some level of im

COVID may stay around as an endemic, circulating virus - but at the same time, it will recede in impact. Eventually, nearly everyone will have some level of immunity via either natural-infection-and-recovery, or explicit vaccination. (The latter is certainly better for avoiding death or serious complications.) Even if that immunity fades somewhat with time, as seems to be the case with other 'common cold' cornoaviruses, it'll typically be re-boosted by either a mild survivable case (from circulating virus), or explicit re-vaccination. So at some point – probably no later than 2022 – people will be behaving mostly as before, because the ongoing impact of COVID will have shrunk to be similar to traditional colds/flus.