With the prospect of new coronavirus vaccines becoming available to medical workers and the most vulnerable only days from now, the process of restoring normalcy after the COVID-19 plague is finally about to begin.

It will take some time. As the weeks and months pass, tens of millions of doses of a vaccine will become available, and more and more people will enjoy greater safety going out in public. People will feel an increased confidence to go back to their business as they did before the virus struck a year ago.