Ask HN: When would you feel ok again working from cafes or coworking spaces?

Without the development of a vaccine, there’s no limit to how long cohabitated workspaces will remain categorically untenable for knowledge work.

The risk of recurrences and spike, cooccurrence with the flu, etc., is just too high. These spaces cannot be fitted with fully private office space per each individual and plexiglass guards and floor marking aren’t going to solve shit. Communal food areas have to stay closed. One at a time at the coffee machine. 5 at a time on the elevator, 2 at a time on the stairs - it’s just not gonna work.

Simply put, there has to be a medical basis for unequivocal treatment or immunity. Nothing prior to that could allow a path for these types of work spaces.