Re:US may not be back to normal until 2022, Fauci says
by sharken on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:15PM
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Restrictions are most certainly not being reduced now, look to Ireland, Czechia and Poland to name but a few examples.
Any kind of normality will only return when a vaccine is here, and itβs still 6-8 months away.
Recently we've started to very slowly relax things. It's become clear that surfaces aren't really a transmission vector, for one, and that generally if you're outside (or in a well-filtered space) and people use masks you're probably fine. We went to the botanical gardens last weekend. My partner's friends are having a back yard (masked) movie night that we may go to. We're contemplating going to my parents' house for Christmas if we can get everyone to hardcore-quarantine in the weeks leading up to it.
I'm normally an introverted person, but even just the thought of some of these allowances has lifted my spirit dramatically.
But no: despite all that I have no intention of sitting down for a meal at a restaurant anytime soon, much less going to a big box store when I could simply order a delivery. The risk/reward just doesn't work out there until there's a vaccine and it works.