Personally at this moment i am ok with isolating as much as possible and everything being closed down to beat the virus. Even if the cases rise to 500 by the end of March, if if then start to go down and peoples either get cured or sadly die, then at some point without going careless we could maybe start to live again. Borders should remain close, but our day to day life could start back HERE in Quebec. Cause they say it take 2 weeks max before knowing if peoples have it or not, add a few more weeks to get cured and normally 1 month from now if peoples follow directives, there shouldn't be much new cases/propagation here. We are not Italy where the spread is insane.
But when i see peoples mentioning this could take 12 to 18 months, im like "woaaaa wait a minute, are we really gonna stop to live for over a year?"
I remember fondly a year ago because this is when i started my weight loss transformation (in around 2 week it will be a year) and that was a LONG time... lot happened since then. I don't see myself living like i live now for that long and hell im not even somebody that goes out that much in the first place. And before someone says it, yeah i could go a year without seeing an escort... it would not be pleasant, but its not what im talking about here.
Its just that right now some "measures" are very extreme. I mean whats the point of stopping to sell lotery tickets really? You could have them be validated while going to the grocery or convenient store and gather your foods at the same time. Can't even return consigned cans... gonna have a LOT to return when it start back, storing that for 3 months would be already hard, but a year? ARG !
I hear peoples say maybe they will stop taking cash... i don't have a bank forfeit personally. i can use my credit card where they accept it because i can do one big transaction and pay everything back at the end of the month but i can't do interact.... cost me over 1$ EVERY TIME. I pay lots of stuff in cash.
Maybe i sound like a spoiled brat right now, and i know some peoples are living way worst condition in war/famine countries, but my point is ok right now i say lets trust our governements, lets try stopping the spread. But if it fail and after 2 months it keep rising up and peoples still get infected, then i dunno...
That being said, maybe down the road a vaccine/cure may exist and even if the virus is still present, it could "fix it" but i dunno..