Coronavirus and fashion

Has it only been months?

It feels much longer.  Maybe because we in Hong Kong had also been dealing with the protests for so long.  Life has felt completely out of kilter for well over a year now as a result.  Things will go back to normal (or some new form of normal) some day, but it's hard to tell or even contemplate when that will be.  I used to read histories, and think about the wars that would go for years.  It didn't seem "as long" when isolated on the pages of history, but now, experiencing this passage of time and the impact it has on lives, I'm starting to get a better understanding of the mental impact of having your life put into this bizarre stasis for so long.

Things are changing in a more unexpected way as well now.

We don't have any vaccines yet, but we certainly have the new ways of dealing with the virus which are more practical and fashionable.

It's an odd thing to see, this rise in "Coronavirus Fashion".  Is it a form of exploitation?  A profiting off of the misery and suffering of others?

Or is it rather, as I suspect, just an example of how life has now changed for good.  Is this the new normal that we will face going forward in our lives?