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> monitoring infection on a wide-spread basis

Temperature checks in every commercial, retail and residential building and mode of public transportation?

> maintaining measures that lower how contagious it is

Masks for all? Expecting 20 sec handwashing vigilance to stay indefinitely? Restaurant tables and desks at work kept meters apart?

I’m wondering what the new normal looks like and how well it will be implemented in western countries.

> Expecting 20 sec handwashing vigilance to stay indefinitely?

This is not the same as the other two. People should wash their hands properly regardless.

You shouldn't only call a cab after going out drinking, only because you know there'll be a checkpoint that night, right?

That may be true, but humans tend to get lax once the immediate crisis is over.

Right, I'm not optimistic that we'll learn the lesson. I hope I'm wrong.