The UK government announces (prematurely due an inevitable leak) that November is to be deleted from the calendar, adding to three months of lost productivity throughout the Spring.
I think the modern world ~ just when we thought we'd conquered Nature along with all else ~ is ham-strung by a fear of death and an aversion to every conceivable risk.
Ironically this might accelerate the death of what it means to be human, moving ever more of our daily affairs online and into the hands of robotic and artificial means of intelligence.
In the pursuit of eVTOL, while we may not want to wait for the government, we want even less to be waiting on authorities that will inevitably use the excuse of a pandemic to strangle it at birth.
