So what does that mean for city life, so truncated these past few months? Is the Covid-19 pandemic a death blow to our cities, a stake driven through the heart of our ideal of dense, communal urban living?
If, as appears likely, we don’t get a vaccine that fixes Covid-19 at a stroke, we’ll likely be living with this virus in some time, as we do with influenza. “The virus forced a real-life experiment that achieved in a month what I’d struggled to argue for 10 years,” he said.
Then coronavirus struck, the entire medical profession adopted his ideas en masse, and my friend’s clinic is now considered cutting-edge. His colleagues figured he was a dangerous maverick. Paradoxically, he said, this would actually mean more personal attention for patients, as doctors would be freed for the most urgent cases.
