If you were to guess, when do you think you might be ready and confident to travel, attend plays and festivals and other large crowd events, with the Covid vaccine being rolled out?

Sometime in 2022.

I’ll wait on recommendation from the health pros. At least we have a POTUS now who won’t can anyone who doesn’t fly his way.

I think @cookieman is closer to the truth. I will await the arrival of the vaccines, but I’m wondering about the mutability of the covid strains and the implications down the road. Are we going to need a covid shot every year as we do with the flu?

I’m hoping to be able to go to live local outdoor music events next summer and perhaps travel by plane again next Fall or winter. That’s my hope.

Sometime after the mass vaccinations, and after observing the results of other people going back out en masse.

My guess: late 2021.
My hope: late spring of 2021.

Sometime in 2022.

After the vaccine. Probably late Summer

I figure it is reasonable that after health care workers, elderly and other high risk workers receive the vaccine, and accounting for likely supply shortages, my family and I will likely get vaccinated in Fall of 2021.

I’d easily give it three months to see how myself and others have reacted to it. Side effects, failure rate. Do I get sick at all with a little more exposure? This puts me into 2022 where, if all hours well, I’ll teach fully in person again for the Spring semester. Maybe have some family over the house for Easter.

If that goes well, I’m into the beginning of Summer 2022 before I’d even consider it. Probably limited travel first.

Concerts or other mass events would be well after that. And honestly, I’ve been to many concerts. There’s nobody I’d risk my health to see at this point.

We’re debating a family vacation next summer where we all do a limited quarantine and COVID testing beforehand… and while I VERY MUCH want to celebrate a major wedding anniversary in the family and my PhD, I am quite uncertain whether this is a good plan. I am anticipating needing to travel to find a place to live before we move for a job after I graduate this upcoming May. If I get a teaching job, I will do whatever kind of teaching is expected and take whatever precautions are recommended at the time.

Other than that, I have no plans to attend large gatherings. Period.

I don’t believe there will be a “return to normal”. Masks will become a way of life. Another pandemic will follow this one.

I am going with sometime in 2022 as well.

Probably Summer ( 2021/2022).
But heard on the News of the possibility of travel restrictions UNLESS one carry a certificate showing that one had the corvid vaccine shots, other wise no travel allowed and in some cases no employment either.
Proof of vaccine might be needed to secure a job and or travel.

Fall of 2021, if the vaccines work and get distributed as well as possible.

For me it will depend on when I feel safely vaccinated and/or the infection rate has dropped to extremely low levels.

At the moment that sounds like it will be a long way off, and I’m not really thinking I have much way of estimating when. 2021 summer seems optimistic but maybe possible. 2022 seems more likely, but I really don’t know.

I’ll wait until after I get my shots and the vaccine’s effect kicks in. That could be about the first of March 2021.

Given how infrequently I attend concerts, etc one that I’m interested in probably wouldn’t have come around until 2022 or 2023 anyway, so…