Things have a way of getting out of hand.

One thing has led to another as the global world faces the unforeseeable consequences of its own actions. The psychological context at the start of the outbreak was the world could “beat the virus” with a relatively short but strict lockdown. Now with the 2020 past the middle, it’s dawning on nations that we don’t know how long the pathogen will be with us and when — or if — a vaccine will be available.