As this article, Why the Road to Reopening New York Will Be So Hard (link), any return to normal conditions is probably a fantasy -- dreaming in Technicolor, as you will. Whether for reasons of politics, medicine, panic or some blend of the two, it is impossible to imagine a return to use of educational and religious facilities in ways that don't feel more funereal than lockdown.
Imagine school classrooms where children are not allowed to talk to each other, where they are plexiglassed off or seated six feet apart. Or religious facilities where pews have markers so that people are sitting more than average height distance from each other. And where a word with clergy, whether for comfort or for some question about ritual is flatly out of the question?
Schools and religious bodies have futures; as domain names and websites. We need server farms, which occupy much less pricey real estate than the sprawling grounds of a college campus. We won't need the army of workers needed to tend such facilities, reducing costs for some and consigning others to unemployment.
Similarly, blocks of streets crowded with restaurants could be turned into government distribution facilities or housing for the homeless. This may be one way to re-imagine the post-Covid future.
Your vision of the post-Covid future sounds like living in a 1970's era Warsaw Pact country. People aren't going to accept that.
There will be a new equilibrium. It won't be the dystopian future some people are talking about.
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