So I see a shelf life on this of another month or so. Not that the pandemic will “go away” but people’s sanity and wallets will demand normalcy by the end of April. By that point we will know if you had it/if you recovered. I can see us trickling back to our lives. Schools in CT announced out until at least 4/20 (nice). I honestly think it’s ridiculous to announce that date when there’s really no way that happens. However, at that point people will hopefully be cognizant of being safe and washing their damn hands.
Well, yes and no.
I think we may be a month or so away from the need to relax the more extreme lock downs, but probably multiple months before we can have bigger social gatherings again, and it’s probably prudent for many distancing protocols to continue or to be enacted for a similar term (e.g. retail stores enacting and enforcing queues* or remaining delivery or curbside pickup only, or continuing their reduced “sanitize and shelf recovery” hours, nursing homes and hospitals limiting visitors more so than normally, and so forth), at least until a vaccine happens or we manage to achieve sufficient herd immunity.
Life probably isn’t going to be “pre-COVID normal” for a good long time though.
*Which in my opinion far too few stores, if any, have even bothered attempting such a thing, and as a person who works in a retail environment considered essential and which is remaining open during the current lockdown here in state, the “free for all” environment still being encouraged is anecdotally actively stressful to us who are working the floor. But that’s on the shoulders of the retailer mostly.