We’re opening a new chapter in the tale of two cities: the young and the healthy will take their chances; the old and the vulnerable will effectively remain under house arrest. JDavidsonNYC writes
Masks are good, but they’re not enough. Photo: Shahar Azran/Shutterstock Soon, New York will start pulling up shutters and setting out chairs. Work-from-homers will venture beyond their neighborhoods from time to time. Employees will trickle back into offices. Housekeepers, electricians, dentists, and security guards will repopulate the subway, because they will have no choice.
If New Yorkers could get tested en masse and quickly isolate those who are infected, separating them from their families for two weeks, then the healthy could all pitch in to heal our wounded city. It’s not inconceivable. Wuhan, a city larger than New York, has reportedly tested 6.5 million residents in ten days. The Army tests all new recruits before they can join the ranks. In the short term, we would need to tolerate intrusions into our privacy that cannot be made permanent.
Maybe one day a universally effective vaccine will make all these considerations moot. In the meantime, though, as the city emerges from its state emergency, impatient with grief, eager to start making money again, each of us has to decide how to manage risk, not just to ourselves but to everyone we know.
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