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Old 10-04-2020 | 06:11 AM
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Originally Posted by jacinth
Not necessarily. A vaccine won’t reduce deaths to zero and is likely to be largely ineffective. I would expect herd immunity by next summer though. A vaccine will provide a sentiment help like a sugar pill. Maybe our leaders will get rid of the masks shortly after, but I wouldn’t expect “what makes sense” to be how this plays out considering how things have gone. Either way, looking at the sentiment I see, I don’t see passenger levels close to 2019 levels until people can travel without the anxiety the mask creates. I still think they can rise to 50-70% until that point provided quarantine/testing restrictions are lifted.
Maybe, In fact, the existence of the vaccine, effective or not, will bring people back, to an extent. Surely, to a higher extent that we see them today.
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