Nobody knows for sure when the Coronavirus pandemic that has overturned everyone’s lives will end, but that doesn’t mean we can’t guess! Read IHS student responses to when they think the pandemic will end and how.
Ryan Cunningham ‘20: Here’s how it will go. There will be multiple waves and outbreaks of COVID-19 until it is finally crushed and kept on the sidelines. An eventual vaccine will help with the virus response, though governments will have trouble distributing it. After COVID-19 is over, the US economy will be so crippled due to a sluggish administrative response that GDP will drop significantly. People will also initially be hesitant to spend money on retail stores, and a few more brick-and-mortar chains will go bankrupt. Coming out of the crisis with a stronger rebound, China will catch up to the United States and become the world’s largest economy.
Emerson Schryver ‘23: April of next year.
Anna Bjerken ‘22: I think that cities are going to release their social distancing protocols prematurely, causing a second wave of the pandemic, and I think because of this the pandemic will last longer than we want it to.
Hannah Shvets ‘23: I think we will be able to return to school in the fall but the pandemic will continue until a vaccine is created (probably in the beginning of 2021). We will have to continue social distancing in the summer because experts say there will still be peaks of cases in New York for the next several months. If people actually social distance all summer, everyone with the coronavirus will have recovered or died and it will no longer be such a risk to continue normal living. However, if people continue to not social distance this quarantine will most likely last until the vaccine is created in around February of 2021.
Andrew Han ‘23: It will end on December 31 because of vaccines. Half a year seems pretty good.
Ainslie Reimer ‘23: I think the pandemic will end next year when they come out with a vaccine. Things will not be back to normal until the vaccine comes out so that people become comfortable and there are no risks of getting the virus.
Alex Jordan ‘23: I think the pandemic will end in late June 2020 in Ithaca, but then continue elsewhere until late September 2020. I think this will mostly be from the pandemic dying off. In January 2021, a second wave will start. The second wave will be much larger and more severe and will only end in July 2021 when a vaccine is developed.
David Barry ‘23: Towards the end or middle of next year, around Christmas or January.
James Heenie ‘20: It’s going to end at around June, and it will end because small businesses are suffering and people have had enough of this. Red states will open first while blue state governors try to hold on to their newfound powers over their people.
Daniel Zawel ‘22: The pandemic will end when the COVID-19 vaccine is successfully completed on March 2, 2022.
Martin Lowry ‘21: Covid-19 (aka coronavirus (aka social distancing (aka distance learning aka summer school) will only get worse and worse for the rest of time. Any hope that we are getting now with phased restriction lifting is just false victories. In 3 years time, if you want to go into the outside world, you must wear a full hazmat suit and specially made super dark sunglasses, because the virus has gotten so bad at this point that you can catch it by looking at it. To then enter back into your house everyone has a decontamination chamber added on to their house. 10 years later, just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, the virus makes a sudden evolution and becomes so thick and hazardous that it blocks out any light from the sun and we all slowly begin to freeze to death without the sun to keep us warm. The summer of ’19 was your last chance to have an enjoyable virus-free summer. Now. . . you. . . are. . . d.e.a.d.
Siran “Jay” Jia ‘23: October 4, 2020.
Maren Dilliplane ‘20: I don’t think it will be over until late fall, we’re still super far away from a treatment plan and a vaccine that actually works.
Uchechukwu Igwe ‘21: I predict December 2020.
Before the Pandemic there was another world wide event that turned the world upside down, World War II. In 1942, Ithaca High School students answered the same question I asked students in 2020: when will it end? Click on the link below to see their answers.
http://www.ihstattler.com/blog/2018/10/archives-excerpts-tattler-issues-yesteryear-7/