If you want to know what it is like in combat--this is it. You make educated guesses as which course of action to take. Is the enemy attack currently underway, really a faint, to draw you in to committing your reserves in one place--when the major attack is coming in another location? On such decisions battles and sometimes wars are lost The Germans initially thought the D-Day invasion was not the major attack they were expecting. Their reaction to commit their panzer divisions to the counter attack came too late to be a deciding factor in that battle.
Now there are plenty of university scientific models being churned out to depict what might happen if the "foot is taken off the gas" with social distancing at the beginning of May. Recent news articles have indicated that there could be another wave of infections during the summer. As I've written in the past, the lack of availability of COVID-19 testing has us still flying blind on where the disease is and if it is waxing or waning.
Here in Washington State, the Governor has already made the decision that schools won't be back in the classroom this year. So virtual learning continues through the end of the school year. If you do open up a segment of workers to going back to work--who are they? I could see construction workers being one potential class of workers who could return to work first--if they attempt to maintain social distancing in doing so.
We do know that the coronavirus has not peaked in many parts of the nation. There are still metro areas that will have significant impacts and rural areas appear to only now becoming impacted by the disease.
Whatever the decision that is made, state-by-state, it will behoove all of us to remain vigilant in our own personal behaviors. I would not run out and hug grandma right away--unless of course you don't really like her.
