Taking the Long View in a Time of Great Uncertainty Scenario Planning in the Age of COVID-19

摘要

“It was a surreal feeling. There were almost no other cars on the road, and it was rush hour. I would be home in 15 minutes instead of the 45 minutes, or longer, that it usually takes. My mind wandered to the eerie settings in some of the science-fiction movies I remember about life after an Armageddon event. But this was real. As an ‘essential worker’ I am allowed to be out on the road because of my work in national security programs. I never thought that I would crave for more people to be around me and for traffic to be much heavier. But given the ‘Stay-at- Home’ order by the government, those are ‘luxuries’ that no longer exist. This is not a world that I was prepared for.”