Consider this.
We made no attempt to contain the coronavirus. It is now wild in the world. We will be unable to clean every surface or identify every carrier. It will now be there forever.
What does that mean?
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We now have effective treatments for HIV/AIDS, but they took decades to develop.
We might get a vaccine, but not before summer or fall of 2021 at the earliest.
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Between waves, we'll engage in social distancing as a matter of course.
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We will find ways to ask if they've tested positive for Rona antibodies. If so, they're safe.
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Repeatedly.
Because you might not be infected now, but you could be next week.
And by "going back to work" I also mean going to Starbucks or a movie or a playground.
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Universal vaccinations won't happen in a day.
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Plus, there's the rest of the world.
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We have to hit everywhere on the planet that's had coronavirus spread. It's possible. It's been done. We eradicated smallpox and polio. It took years, but we did it.
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There will be post-traumatic stress, and survivor guilt, on a national scale. Our way of looking at the world will change.
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The world will never be the same. We will never again have what we now think of as "normal."
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