I dunno, man. I'm not seeing this all just "poofing" away with an "oopsie, sorry".

However, I'll entertain the thought, because it makes sense the more I think about it:
Perhaps covid was our generation's 9/11. We got riled up (well, I'm not American and was too young to care, but you get the idea...), decided as a civilized world that it was OK to invade Iraq (& Afghanistan) because, reasons...
The country got plundered and then the people in power shrugged with a "woopsie, my bad". Meanwhile, as an excuse we get Snowden, Assange, and others showing us just how much smaller the world has become.

But it's all a silent war, and we've lost. No one's fighting the NSA. No one is denying 24/7 access to their personal data. No one bats an eye when someone in Australia gets visited by cops for a mean post on Facebook. No, instead as a sign of "protest" we post it all over... well, Facebook! We use the monkey tools that enslave us and think we are somehow denting the system.

TL;DR Covid will be over once the Overton Window and govt powers have shifted enough for Covid to outlive its usefulness. Life will become a little worse every step, but we won't really remember what it was like before then, anyway