The suggestion to return to wearing filter masks during all activities outside the home, whether indoors or outdoors, will be severely challenged. Quite a few people will strongly oppose the return to the use of these masks, because their awareness is dulled and their saturation accumulates with the prolongation of the pandemic.
Therefore, we need to continue massive education and socialization of the importance of continuing adherence to health protocols, to habituate them for good. The people need to be aware that the pandemic is far from over. By maintaining health protocol discipline, we can keep the disease under control.
The Government may return stronger restrictions if the number of cases continue to increase – with the attendant risk of further increasing the people’s mental and emotional saturation concerning the disease. Even if the Government attempts to institute a mass second booster of vaccination, it should prioritize vulnerable groups like the health workers who handle Covid-19 patients, just like during the initial vaccination drives.