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6. I've been saying this for a while.

Pretend it's 1939 and you and I are planning a trip to Europe next year. We've been saving and planning for some time now and are really looking forward to it. We'll visit London, Paris, Rome, Venice, some other places.

Then September rolls around and WWII starts. Ah, crap! No trip to Europe next year. Maybe the war won't last very long and we can go in 1941 instead. Well, the war there goes on and on and doesn't end until May of 1945. The soonest we'll be taking that long-postponed trip will be 1946, maybe a year or more later. And when we finally get to go, the Europe we'll see is profoundly changed from the one we'd have seen had we gone in 1939.

It's going to be like that with this pandemic. It's going to last much longer than anyone expects, and a lot of things will be profoundly different.