Covid-19 Continues to Shift, Along With Our Expectations
We’re all itching to return to normal, but every day raises new questions about what that might look like.
Might want to lower your expectations.
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Nearly a year and a half into the Covid-19 pandemic, many of us have resigned ourselves to living in a changed world. But how we’ll manage everyday life in the long term remains a series of wide-open questions: What will workplaces be like in six months? When can tourists finally plan overseas trips? (And will locals welcome them back?) How do we reconcile the debate over vaccine passports? The disease itself has changed as variants emerge; rich countries chug along toward herd immunity; and regions, states, cities and small towns reopen — or don’t. We’ve all had enough of Covid, but that doesn’t mean it’s had enough of us.
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