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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Apr 15, 2020, 01:05 PM Apr 2020

When life returns to normal, it won't be the normal you knew

OLYMPIA — There’s every indication Washington is getting the upper hand in its battle against COVID-19, but don’t plan on life returning to normal in a month — or maybe even a year.

Public health officers remained steadfast Tuesday against setting a timeline for easing restrictions credited with slowing the coronavirus spread by shackling society and shuttering the economy.

State and county officials have contemplated a deliberate, methodical unwinding of social distancing directives to allow people out of their homes and businesses to reopen. But it will be done in phases, and it may last months to prevent the virus from making a deadly resurgence, they said.

“We’re looking toward the future. We’re not going to totally stop or contain this virus unless we have a treatment or vaccine,” Secretary of Health John Wiesman told reporters Tuesday afternoon. “This normal we’re going to go into will be a different normal.”

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