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It got me thinking --- at some point, governments are going to have to step back a little bit from fighting COVID-19 in "hair on fire" mode and think about how to run their economies while living with the virus. I have no time for the "lockdown skeptics", but at some point, if you're not prepared to take the measures needed to get to Zero Covid (and I think that very few governments are, even if they have some geographical advantages on their side), you're going to have to think about how society functions(*).
What else are we going to see emerging once (or "if") we realise that this is going to be with us for a while?
(*) Indeed, even if you do get to Zero Covid, you have to deal with the fact that international travel is a thing. New Zealand has the big advantage in this regard that it's a long way from anywhere, so not many people go there for a summer beach holiday with the kids or a stag do, and hardly anyone goes there for a 48-hour business trip either. We could probably get to Zero Covid here on Mallorca without too much effort, but in normal times we have 9 million tourists a year flying in; that's 10 people for every inhabitant.