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We’re not going back to normal
Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever.
To
stop coronavirus we will need to radically change almost everything we
do: how we work, exercise, socialize, shop, manage our health, educate
our kids, take care of family members.
We
all want things to go back to normal quickly. But what most of us have probably not yet realized—yet will soon—is that things won’t go back to normal after a few weeks, or even a few months. Some things never will.
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It’s now widely agreed (even by Britain, finally) that every country needs to “flatten the curve”: impose social distancing
to slow the spread of the virus so that the number of people sick at
once doesn’t cause the health-care system to collapse, as it is
threatening to do in Italy right now.
That means the pandemic needs to last, at a low level, until either enough people have had Covid-19 to leave most immune (assuming immunity lasts for years, which we don’t know) or there’s a vaccine.
That means the pandemic needs to last, at a low level, until either enough people have had Covid-19 to leave most immune (assuming immunity lasts for years, which we don’t know) or there’s a vaccine.
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