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Emergence



Well, there is some light at the end of this tunnel. As many of you have likely heard, Governor Lamont is targeting a "soft opening" for certain businesses in the state on May 20th. While the plan is not to open everything back up and have things immediately go back to normal, we should take some comfort in the fact that the process of re-opening is at least beginning.


Now, I want to be clear: this is not guaranteed yet. The Governor has said this will only happen if CT's hospitalization rates continue to fall and we continue to gain access to more testing. However, it does seem likely that at least some things will begin to open back up towards the end of the month. This begs the question: how do we go back to normal?


I've heard people say "I hope we don't go back to normal" so many times over the past few weeks, it's starting to feel like a done-to-death meme. But there's truth in that repetition. However, I am STARVING for n