Covid-19 Is Bringing a Fall Full of Unknowns
Change is coming, and we’re probably not going to like it.
The way of the future.
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For many of us, summer is already over, even if we don’t have a choice in the matter. That feeling of dread familiar to schoolchildren as fall approaches is now universal in the era of Covid-19: How will we open schools? (Will we open them at all?) Are we close to developing a vaccine? (Will people get it when we do?) How long before cases begin their long-expected cold-weather spike? (And is it a second wave or still part of the first?) Summer offered a reprieve from spring lockdowns, perhaps bringing along with it a sense of complacency — and outright societal division. As the weather pushes the Northern Hemisphere back indoors, Bloomberg Opinion columnists are looking for signs of what’s ahead ... and how we might prepare for it.
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