Rob L wrote:COVID will never be "all over", as per the OP. It's not the same as the 1918 'flu pandemic; the world population is too large now, and the insistence of creating a cure for this disease is overriding many other medical priorities.
The world will continue to develop viruses for reasons unknown to me (SARS, bird 'flu etc)
I think we will have to make do & mend as best we can.
As for booking Instructors; they're as likely as rusty as the rest of us...I'd rather check myself out than let a rusty instructor do so.
As @widebody says, there are instructors and instructors. Some may have had very little flying whilst others may have done loads.
It’s your revision and your money, so you should chose an instructor that has the experience to deliver what you need.