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As a Londoner I find this very difficult to believe and I think the situation is fairly similar across all of the major metropoles. Basically everyone I know i
by esotericn 7y ago
As a Londoner I find this very difficult to believe and I think the situation is fairly similar across all of the major metropoles.
Basically everyone I know is chomping at the bit to get back to the pub and resume life as normal.
If there's an antibody test and enough people are infected, then I imagine that those that are immune will just act exactly as before and perhaps even find paranoid folk frustrating to be around.
A nonzero and significant fraction of people (I don't condone this FWIW) are still wandering around in the parks, having barbecues etc, because they simply don't want to face the idea of a life in which we are afraid of our common man - it's the essence of metropolitan life. The death of sociality is the death of London.
- standardUser 7y agoNothing wrong with going to the park or cooking food outside, as long as you're maintaining social distance with people outside of your household. The virus doesn't spread by magic.
- esotericn 7y agoEthically there's nothing wrong with it in isolation, but that breaks down if everyone does it because there's not enough room in the parks for people to distance. It's also illegal (not an essential journey or exercise), probably for the reason stated above.
- michaelt 7y agoI believe the issue in London is the parks can get so busy, you can't maintain social distancing. Or at least, some parks can, when there's no coronavirus, and the weather is good, at weekends.
- mrfusion 7y agoMaybe this shows we need more parks.
- michaelt 7y agoIt all depends on what the outcome is in terms of immunity, vaccines and mutation. If we achieve Polio-style elimination, with a vaccine that confers immunity long enough for the disease to be eliminated - cities like London will absolutely bounce back. But if we end up with Flu-style situation, where immunity last year doesn't mean you're immune this year, and immunity to the strains in New York doesn't mean you're immune to the strains in San Francisco? It's difficult to know what the outcomes from that would be.