O P I N I O N
The road ahead
“With social distancing in full swing and virtually everyone I know in the A/E business working remotely, the new reality of living with the coronavirus is just getting started.”
W ith social distancing in full swing and virtually everyone I know in the A/E business working remotely, the new reality of living with the coronavirus is just getting started.
and multiple refrigerators and freezers full of food, and make all of our meals at home. 2)Work will never be the same. All work I do today is accomplished via email, phone, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, or some other collaboration platform. Aside “It’s not all bad. I have already lost five pounds. We are getting more ‘official exercise’ than we normally do. Our 120 lb. Great Pyrenees pup is happier than ever. We discovered we can still cook and make some pretty good meals.”
Reflecting on the present and looking toward the future, here are some of my thoughts: 1)This is the new reality. The situation will get worse before it gets better. Unless they develop a cure very, very soon – and make that available to anyone who needs it – I don’t see much changing in our daily lives for at least a couple months. We will be home every day and not seeing anyone other than neighbors we can talk to from either the deck off our bedroom or our front yard as they walk by. We aren’t seeing our older kids at all and only talk to them and other family members by phone or FaceTime. We severely restricted the social circle of my 17-year-old stepdaughter to one friend several weeks ago. We wash hands 50 times a day and spray or wipe down every package or anything that could have been exposed. We aren’t going out to eat. We have gotten take-out only once. We have a well-stocked pantry
Mark Zweig
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THE ZWEIG LETTER April 6, 2020, ISSUE 1339
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