Today, for the first time since the start of the outbreak, I visited a hospital. The person I am visiting is not suffering from anything COVID related, yet the entire scene is very very strange.
Everybody here is wearing a mask, and levels of screening are required even to enter the building.
But what strikes me is how normalized it has all become to the people who work here. The extra levels of mandatory social distancing, the safety protocols, they have just become part of everyday work at the hospital.
Doctors and nurses and other staff joke together, and see this now as just a normal part of existence. Perhaps that is what it has become.