Out with March

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It's hard to remember a time that wasn't March. The world has become a very different place in 2020. I am afraid we have at least several more months of this "new normal" and then a considerable period of recovery.

Just today, I came across a photo of a shuttered business in San Francisco I had walked by earlier this year. While many businesses have been ordered closed, in many places construction is continuing. 

Living in an area with several major buildings in progress, I have wondered if or when it will stop and what the long-term effect will be. I did read that non-essential construction in New York has stopped. 

So many people in our society don't have the option of working from home to avoid the virus- construction workers among them. Some people don't think the government should be able to require businesses to close. It's a good question, but I think questions of public safety are in a different realm. Perhaps if businesses and stay orders would have been implemented sooner, the pain could have been lessened. Widespread testing early on may have also helped minimize the impact.

There will be plenty of time to plan for the next pandemic after-the-fact. I do hope we are able to learn from this one. 





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