They imagine this shift happening state by state, though you could also imagine it happening city by city. San Francisco may be semi-normal, while things are getting worse in Texas. Places with a terrible infection spike may reopen before places that have a gentler infection curve. But soon they will have to figure out how to reopen while maintaining the social distancing that semi-normalcy requires. Thus the scenes at some grocery stores right now, the line of people six feet apart waiting to come inside and shop, may become a permanent feature of the semi-normal landscape.

Source: New York Times April 04, 2020 18:45 UTC