Coronavirus: Learning How to Dance

Part 1: A Dancing Masterclass, or What We Can Learn from Countries Around the World

Dance is just discovery, discovery, discovery.—Martha Graham

Translations in 14 languages available at the bottom of the article.

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A month ago we sounded the alarm with Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now. After that, we asked countries to buy us time with Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance and looked in detail at the US situation with Coronavirus: Out of Many, One. Together, these articles have been viewed by over 60 million people and translated into over 40 languages.

Since then, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has grown twentyfold, from 125,000 to over 2.5 million. Billions of people around the world are under the Hammer: Their governments have implemented heavy social distancing measures to quench the spread of the virus.

Most did the right thing: The Hammer was the right decision. It bought us time to reduce the epidemic and to figure out what to do during the next phase, the Dance, in which we relax the harsh social distancing measures in a careful way to avoid a second outbreak. But the Hammer is hard. Millions have lost their jobs, their income, their savings, their businesses, their freedom. The world needs answers: When is this over? When do we relax these measures and go back to the new normal? What will it take? What will life be like?

When do we get to dance?

This article will explain when, and how, we will dance. Specifically, we will discover:

What can we learn from the experiences of countries around the world? What measures will we need to implement during the dance, so we can get back to a new normal? At what cost? How can we make them a reality?

Here’s what you’ll learn:

The Hammer has bought us time. Millions have been saved.

Now we know what we need to do to dance.

Many countries have shown us the path.

We can learn from their successes and from their failures.

In fact, we can dance for pretty cheap.

We likely won’t need to keep businesses and schools closed.

But we need to know exactly what these measures are, because we need to prepare for them now.

Governments have a major role to play.

Most haven’t done what they need to do yet.

They are antsy to get back to normal, so they’re rushing without being ready.

Many will have a second outbreak.

If we do it right, in a few weeks we can get back to a new normal.

Our lives will change for a year or so, but these changes will be reasonable.

They will allow us to avoid both massive deaths and economic collapse.

This article has exploded into the size of a little book, so instead of releasing it all at once, we will release one section per day. If you don’t want to miss any article, sign up for the newsletter. Today, we are releasing the 1st part of the article: A Dancing Masterclass. Here is Part 2.

Let’s do it.

1. The State of the World

Cases across the world keep growing.