https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiq5ymktg6w

Looks like the remote work party is going to end in the next 6 months. It's the darkest time with colder weather accelerating infections, but we're only 6 months from the end of the party. The trick is the virus doesn't mutate as fast as HIV or the common cold, so a vaccine was attainable. The vaccines about to be issued were created right around July & it's taken until now to get all the results. It took over 300 vaccine candidates to arrive at the current 3 success stories.

The normal vaccine timeline of 15 years was compressed to just 6 months. If a vaccine wasn't developed or was deemed impossible, the result would have been bleak.

Mask mandates, travel restrictions, bans on social gatherings, & reduced indoor capacity would have been imposed for the rest of our lives & a large part of the population would have disappeared a lot earlier than its time.

It became clear over time that the preventative measures were never going to stop it. It was just too easy to transmit, unlike other viruses which never got eradicated. Younger generations who were once resistant to the symptoms would have aged into groups that were now susceptible. Our masks would have become old & tattered. The idea of social gatherings & going to other countries would have become a forgotten memory. We would have all gotten good at cutting our own manes.