世界正進入一個反復試驗實驗期，城市和國家成了露天實驗室，研究如何在新冠肆虐下最安全有效地重新開放回歸常態。各個社會正在權衡利弊中摸索，基于公共衛生和常識的原則推動政策建立，在困境中找到最佳解決方案。史無前例的疫情令全人類在未知中航行，在高風險的試錯中竭盡全力重塑社會生態。

Reopenings Mark a New Phase: Global‘Trial-and-Error' Played Out in Lives

MAX FISHER

第一段：

The world isentering a period of high-stakes experimentation, with cities and countriesserving as open-air laboratories for how to most safely and effectively reopenamid the coronavirus.

Unable to waitindefinitely for science to answer every riddle about what makes infectionsspike in some circumstances and not others, governments are pushing ahead withpolicies built on a growing but imperfect understanding of the virus.

And with littleconsensus on how best to balance public health against social and economicneeds, societies are feeling their way through trade-offs that would begut-wrenching even with better information on any given policy's likely cost inlives and livelihoods.

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"We're in themiddle of a global trial-and-error period to try to find the best solution in avery difficult situation," said Tom Inglesbury, who directs the Center forHealth Security at Johns Hopkins University.

The first wave ofreopenings, predominantly in Asia and Europe, are providing a preview of whatcould become a continual process of experimentation and recalibration.

Each policy, likedistancing students at Danish schools or temperature checks at Hong Kongrestaurants, however based in scientific knowledge and calculated cost-benefit,is also a trial of what works, what's worthwhile and what people will accept.

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Though experiencebought in lives will convert some unknowns to knowns, many questions may remainunanswered for the duration of what is expected to be a one-to-two-year crisis.

That includes whatmay be the hardest but most urgent question of all: What is the value of a lifesaved?

Countries havelittle choice but to guess at stomach-turning ethical calculations. How manylives should be risked to save a thousand people from unemployment? To stop ageneration of kids from falling behind in school? To salvage a sense ofnormalcy?

While Dr.Inglesbury stressed that "there are a lot of principles that are based onpublic health and common sense" to guide us, he also said, "There's no road mapfor this."