There is no pat answer to that question. Look up "rock and a hard place"...How long do you stay locked down? Until the virus doesn't exist? Until everybody is vaccinated? How long?
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There is no pat answer to that question. Look up "rock and a hard place"...How long do you stay locked down? Until the virus doesn't exist? Until everybody is vaccinated? How long?
Sadly, this virus is killing also a lot of young people here. Only small children seem to be safe (till now). Old people were dying faster, so initially it appeared that only old people were dying, Youngsters fight longer, but in the end also a number of them are dying, after having been sick for weeks.
We are opening factories in Italy starting on Monday, in a couple of weeks all the other countries will learn if this was a good idea or not. I warmly hope that the second wave will be much smaller than the first one, so that we can manage it without the need of closing everything again.
On my side, I will continue staying at home as long as possible, hoping to help mitigating the second wave.
What is clear is that, even when the second wave will extinguish, we will not be able to return immediately to "normal life": the following step (phase 3) will be opening bars and restaurants and hotels, possibly at half June, as the touristic season is providing subsistence to millions of people. This inevitably will cause the third wave, which will be the really dangerous one.
Then in September, if we survived to the third wave, it will be the time for reopening schools and universities. And this will cause the 4th wave.
If anything goes wrong in these key passages we will need to come back to the start, locking everything for one month, before reopening partially again. I warmly hope this does not happen, and we can slowly come back to something vaguely resembling "normality". For true "normality" it will take years!
This is the plan if everything goes well!I sure hope you're wrong lol. if this is the case then it sounds like 2020 is a scratch! no bueno!
Keep going where? If we stay locked up, the economy will suffer greatly. If we open up many, possibly millions, will die. The phrase means that here are no good or even less bad options.When you are between a rock and a hard place, sometimes you just have to keep going.