04-03-2020, 07:57 PM
(04-03-2020, 05:17 PM)panamaniac Wrote: I'm assuming they mean a two year recovery period and not a two year shutdown. Governments will be under huge pressure to begin restarting the economy in about two to three months time, or as soon as there is some level of assurance that health care will not collapse, whichever comes sooner. I could see senior citizens remaining in self-isolation until the fall, or longer, if the virus persists through the summer. What happens next "season" is anybody's guess at this point.
Edit: I see that they meant up to two years with covid-19 in circulation. One hopes not, but it was already known that that was a possibllity.
Doesn't it remain in circulation until some critical proportion of the population achieves immunity, either through having contracted it or having been administered a vaccine? And the more we slow the spread, the longer the former takes. And since a vaccine is twelve or eighteen months or more away, two years seems reasonable, or even ambitious.