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JUNE 5, 2020

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Experts — and let’s face it, most of the rest of us, too — have been talking about a phenomenon they call quarantine fatigue. We’re not sick, most of us, but we are sick (and tired) of the lockdown. But just in the nick of time, Georgia, South Carolina, and most other states started easing restrictions and trying to gradually restart Daily Life 101. How is that working out so far?   Not so well.   Since late April, deaths in Georgia have more than doubled, from 899 on April 24 (when restrictions started to be lifted) to well over 1,800 on June 1. The total number of cases also topped 46,000 in Georgia by the end of last month, double what they had been just 5 weeks previously.   The picture in South Carolina has been roughly the same: both total cases and deaths almost doubled in the past month, going from May 1 totals of 6,258 and 256 (cases and deaths, respectively) to 12,148 and 500 on June 1.   Those numbers send a clear message: this thing is not only not over, it isn’t even trending in the right direction yet. The fat lady has not even started to sing. The latest concern is that protests over the murder of George Floyd, featuring densely packed throngs of people in city after city around the country, may cause a fresh resurgence of new cases.   It may be time to try to restart the economy, but it is definitely nowhere near the time to start relaxing health guidelines designed to slow or stop the spread of COVID-19. We’ve come this far through an amazing level of cooperation around the world. Without that, the early forecasts had predicted 2 million or more deaths from this virus. Abandon ship now and that dire prediction may come true after all.   Pharmacology and public health experts have been telling us that a vaccine might take as long as a year and a half to develop. Optimistic forecasts hope for one by year end. Since lives are involved, some people wonder why the process can’t be accelerated. The quest might be compared to baking a cake. You can assemble all the right ingredients and mix them together exactly as the directions say. But if you want to take the cake out of the oven after only 10 minutes, you’re not going to be happy with the results.   Some things just can’t be rushed, and one of them is conquering COVID-19, whether it’s what you and me and our neighbors and co-workers are doing, or it’s what top scientists are doing in world-class labs and research facilities. All of it can have immense

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