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by human 2244 days ago
That day will never come. I think lockdown will end when projected cases will be at a level that the health system can handle.
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I think then it depends on your definition of "lockdown ending" since clearly going back to usual will just result in another outbreak as long as it's still circulating. We started with what, 13 cases in the country? It's highly contagious...

I'm not sure that we can build a health system capable of handling this a second time... I have the feeling that this will just result in the way people work changing.

Essential workers taking more power because we are all forced to acknowledge that they're essential. People able to work remotely doing that much much more. Wearing masks at the grocery. These are things I expect to be long-term, except for the first which has some obvious structural barriers.