The pandemic has changed everything. I don't think we will ever get back to what was normal.
Don't hold your breath waiting for the day someone announces that the nightmare is officially over. That's not going to happen all at once. Returning to some semblance of life as we knew it will be a gradual process and probably include a few steps backward along the way.
Other factors will play a large part in the 'new' normal. Divorce rates are going to skyrocket for at least a time, unplanned babies will be born, even bankruptcies are probably going to spike. All of those things will have an impact on people's lives in the near future.
Then there will be those who grieve for loved ones who were lost to Covid-19, and mourn because they were unable to spend time with them in the last few days or hours of their lives.
Personally, I haven't really been affected by the pandemic very much at all, for which I thank whatever deity is appropriate. On a scale of 1 to 10, my discomfort would barely register as high as a 2.
My granddaughter (age 19) told me that she now understands when her parents talk about the devastating days following 9/11 or I talk about the nightmare of living during the days following the murder of a president.
There will come a time when we look back on 2020 the way we do Pearl Harbor, the Kennedy assassination or the terrorist attacks of 2001, but it won't be anytime soon.