When we return to normality again after the plague that is amongst us...what will it be like?

 Do you think we will travel like we used to or will we be more circumspect ..more suspicious of crowds and those not wearing masks. It will take a very long time to get over this. The world has changed because of it and I wonder if it will ever be the same again. Surely a vaccination passport will be compulsory!
 
It’s been a strange old time indeed for many and luckily here in Australia due to border shutdowns we have avoided the huge toll this has taken on so very many thousands, millions of people around the world. Vaccinations seem to be the only answer to stop this mutating into an even stronger virus. Maybe if that happens we may never be able to stop the spread. It is difficult enough now with all the “anti vaxers” as they are called saying so much rubbish on social media frightening everyone.
 
I have had my first jab and my second one is due July 22. We all have to be a part of protecting those more vulnerable amongst us. I had no side effects. Sadly some have blood clots but there are many blood clots daily without the vaccine so what’s the difference?
 
The rubbish that’s spoken really annoys me about it changing your DNA and there’s a tracker in the dose so governments know where you are and what you’re doing. Scientists have been working around the clock to help save us and with their care and training we now have a vaccine.  Many years ago, 1918 in fact, the time of the last big outbreak, when the Spanish flu hit, there wasn’t the knowledge around to help. That, at the time, was the deadliest pandemic in human history. It infected five hundred million people; about one third of the worlds population at the time. The death toll typically estimated to be between 20 to 50 million people. Now there are vaccines available for this pandemic in our time.
 
I only wish here in Australia we had a more permanent, much larger base, for the many thousands of people wishing to return home rather than having to stay in hotels for a couple of weeks in isolated lockdown. Hotels were never meant to be  “quarantine stations” and this has been proven by the constant outbreaks of the virus.
 
I hope and pray we come out the other end of this situation in one piece. Thoughts and prayers for the many, many, thousands that have died in the process....

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