According to historians, pandemics typically have two types of endings: the medical and the social. The medical end occurs when the incidence and death rates plummet. The social end happens when the epidemic of fear about the disease wanes. Thus, an end can occur not because a disease has been vanquished but because people grow tired of panic mode and learn to live with a disease. The challenge is that there will be no sudden victory. As the economic catastrophe wreaked by the lockdowns grows, more and more people may be ready to say "enough." Trying to define the end of the pandemic "will be a long and difficult process.