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I do wonder how this shutdown will turn out in the end. There are 2 options:

a) We live like this for the next 2 years(at least), until a vaccine has been developed and distributed to the Earth's entire population.

b) At a certain point the "Stay Home, Save Lives" rhetoric is dropped, even though there is no improvement in the prognosis of people being infected, because helathcare/testing/tracing has been massively ramped up and people will have to make their own decisions about risk.

People keep saying things like "when this over, people will rush back into the cinemas". But I don't think there ever will be a point when it is declared "over".
There will be a point when it is declared "over" in each country, perhaps something like when there are no new cases for 3 weeks. It may come back, and it may be "over" in the UK long before it is "over" in some African countries and international travellers who have been in certain countries may be required to be tested and/or present a negative test certificate and/or be quarantined for 14 days (making all short trips futile).
In terms of returning to normal, there is also the 'slow car crash option' were everyone still gets infected, but it just takes longer and thus the hospitals don't get swamped.
I hope we don't return to 'normal' but come out of it with a different set of priorities - the key workers aren't 'low-skilled', that homelessness can be solved when needed, that Universal Credit isn't enough to live on, that it is possible to work from home etc.

I'm hoping that the climate will be the real winner, and that we demand change.










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