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A couple wearing facemasks dance in a park next to the Yangtze River in Wuhan, on May 12.
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Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, you can't put it back in. That's what governments around the world may be thinking as they decide whether to ease their coronavirus lockdowns and let people living the "new normal" get back to the "old normal."
What happens if Covid-19 infections subsequently spike, as many warn? Can governments tell people to go back inside for another stretch of time, especially as summer approaches in the U.S. and Europe? And will they even listen?
Already, China, Hong Kong and South Korea are experiencing resurgences in infections after reopening to varying degrees.