Testing is here to stay19 Nov 2020 08:50
Hopefully the vaccines all work. Testing will still be needed though. There is talk the Euro's (football) may be held in one host country next year. Rapid tests will be needed at every match. You have no way of knowing if fans have been vaccinated. That is just an example. Any mass gathering will require them. Whether random checks, targeted checks or tests for all as they enter the grounds. Same for flights, concerts, boxing, basically any large gathering of people. Also schools will need to test continuously. Until COVID 19 is completely irradicated from the world (like smallpox etc) testing will be needed. Also it is predicted by the scientists there will almost certainly be another pandemic (of a virus which does not yet exist) in the next few years. We have had SARS, MERS, EBOLA, H1N1, etc etc in the last 20 yrs. Currently averaging 1 every 3 or 4 yrs. Masks and testing are here to stay unfortunately. Look at Asia, they adopted practice of routinely wearing masks after SARS outbreak back in early 2000's. It's scary but this is now the world we live in. Our kids will not know a world without the internet, masks and testing. How the world has changed since I was a kid. (back in the 1970's).