What We Have Learned During This Pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has created the need for extensive change in how we live, work, parent, get involved in recreation activities, and affiliate with others in our society. Our research and observations over the last six months, combined with discussions with experts, friends, colleagues, and strangers have been enlightening with respect to how people are responding to the pandemic and what strategies for controlling human behavior as a way to control the virus are proving to be effective while others are not--and why. We summarized what we learned below, followed by insights we gained which give us hope that collectively we can live reasonably well with some adjustments.