One of Gurmit Singh's songs on the COVID 19 situation has a line that goes, "Things different already." That was when the COVID 19 pandemic was relatively new and we had to implement a circuit breaker in Singapore which was more or less a lockdown for two months. Lives and livelihoods were all badly affected and after more than a year, are things still different? Well, this is the new normal and if we think that this normal is going to be the one that lasts, then, things are going to be the same but not the same as before the pandemic. So, COVID 19 has become endemic just like the seasonal flu which we have been living with forever. COVID 19 is just more infectious and, in some cases, deadlier. I know some people who get themselves vaccinated yearly against the seasonal flu but I am not one of them....