Reply To: what will post covid-19 look like?

As usual, Charlie hit the nail on the head. Our future lives in big cities for the foreseeable future will be driven by the “Fauci Factor” as explained at today’s Senate hearing on the “reopening. With an effective vaccine (as shown through RCTs and observational metrics) the “fear factor” will still exist but likely at a sufficiently de minimus level that we won’t fear a gutten shabbos handshake or touching the bimah when we get aliyos or wiping down the Eitz Chayim with Purel before doing hagbah. Without a vaccine, we will still venture out but many of us will be highly risk averse in our social and phsical interactions with people and things.