{"id":322,"date":"2020-04-16T15:23:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T22:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=322"},"modified":"2020-04-16T15:23:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T22:23:36","slug":"our-pandemic-summer-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/04\/16\/our-pandemic-summer-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Pandemic Summer &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As I wrote last month, the only viable endgame is to play whack-a-mole with the coronavirus, suppressing it until a <a href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/tag\/vaccine\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">#vaccine<\/a> can be produced. With luck, that will take 18 to 24 months. During that time, new outbreaks will probably arise. Much about that period is unclear, but the dozens of experts whom I have interviewed agree that life as most people knew it cannot fully return. \u201cI think people haven\u2019t understood that this isn\u2019t about the next couple of weeks,\u201d said Michael Osterholm, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota. \u201cThis is about the next two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic is not a hurricane or a wildfire. It is not comparable to Pearl Harbor or 9\/11. Such disasters are confined in time and space. The SARS-CoV-2 virus will linger through the year and across the world. <strong>\u201cEveryone wants to know when this will end,\u201d said Devi Sridhar, a public-health expert at the University of Edinburgh. \u201cThat\u2019s not the right question. The right question is: How do we continue?\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2020\/04\/pandemic-summer-coronavirus-reopening-back-normal\/609940\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Our Pandemic Summer &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote last month, the only viable endgame is to play whack-a-mole with the coronavirus, suppressing it until a #vaccine can be produced. With luck, that will take 18 to 24 months. During that time, new outbreaks will probably arise. Much about that period is unclear, but the dozens of experts whom I have &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/04\/16\/our-pandemic-summer-the-atlantic\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[96],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}