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Life after Covid-19
It is clear the response to Covid-19 will last for months. What we are getting used to now is the new normal, not a short term blip in the old way of doing things. To some extent, nature just hit the pause button on modern life. People are walking in parks, cooking at home, staying local, and slowing down.
With both an increase of people who have had the virus, and then eventually with a vaccine in place, more and more people will not be vulnerable to Covid-19, so the situation will keep changing, and in some ways improving. But for now it is right that we all stay at home — it is like hitting the brakes on a run-away car, and will hopefully slow the spread down enough that our societies can take stock and adapt, altering the way we run economies, manage healthcare, and protect key supply chains. At some point, the draconian social distancing measures will either be lifted a bit, or people will just get bored and stop them, and it’s expected that the virus will surge again.
So, until a vaccine has been tested, taken to market, produced in the billions, and distributed globally, everything we knew so far is set to change. It is quite incredible to think that this pandemic has done more to change modern society than anything else.
And that means there are some positives. Globally, governments and businesses have finally done a lot of what environmentalists…
