This won’t be over by the summer. We’re in this for the long haul. We need to prepare.
After a month of isolation, more and more people are talking about “opening the country” back up again, or getting back to “normal,” especially in time for the summer. For Ed Yong, a science writer at the Atlantic, the big question about this is: What will “normal” look like? The curve is not flattening in America. We don’t have an exit plan for safely reopening the economy. And we’re way past the point where things could just go back to the way they used to be.
Given all that, I feel like when we talk about getting back to “normal,” it’s not even getting back to normal. It’s some kind of new normal, a moderated normal. You made this point that this gradual reopening should not be like flipping a switch, with everything zooming back to the way it was before. We need to help scientists understand what works in terms of preventing the spread of this disease, because we shut everything down so quickly that we don’t know.
The standard protocol for trying to contain a new outbreak is to find people who are infected, isolate them so they can’t infect someone else, and interview them to find all the people they’ve encountered since they became infected—to find all those contacts and to then either test or isolate them. This is all part of the standard public health playbook.
In your story, you say that in this new normal period where we’re living a different kind of life, there are all of these places that don’t make sense anymore: restaurants and school buildings and day care centers. Their employees are in need of work. It seems like we need to flip things around in a dramatic way. I wonder if the states on their own can do the work to turn normal inside out in the way we need to.
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