We now have a roadmap to recovery, a plan as to how we will leave this current lockdown period.
And it is a slow plan, each stage dependent on the next.
The impact of lockdown on all our lives has been severe, while a minority cling to it like a security blanket, most realise it can't be sustained long term.
Because while we are all sailing the same stormy sea, some of us have a bigger boat than others.
The longer it goes on the worse it gets for those clinging to the side of a dinghy.
Those whose lives were difficult before this crisis and have been made much worse since.
Much like Brexit, remember that? What a quaint little crisis that now seems. People need certainty, and no matter how bad things are likely to get, it's better for politicians to be upfront rather to mask or sugar-coat what lies ahead.
The reality being, until there is a coronavirus vaccine widely available social distancing will be part of all our lives for months even years to come.
Such a sad reality for the children of this pandemic generation, being taught that hugs, cuddles and interaction with friends is dangerous. The long term impact of that on their young lives, along with this lengthy gap in their education is an unknown.
And what of the elderly, spending their last months on this earth without even the hand of their own loved ones for comfort.
People who lived through so much, who slogged it out to make life better for future generations are the most vulnerable, not just from the virus, but from the restrictions to prevent it.
That is the non financial cost of this crisis, the human cost, the reality that touch, how we show affection and love, how we comfort and support as humans is how the virus is most easily spread.
On Tuesday the executive published the roadmap to recover, it is a sensible and sober document, albeit lacking a timeframe and details that will allow businesses to plan for reopening and parents organise childcare.
It is welcome that the executive, which was split at the start of this crisis in terms of strategy, has united - at least publicly - behind a plan that doesn't slavishly follow either Westminster or Dublin, but does what is best for this region at this time.
The snub from Dublin, who produced a roadmap to recovery in the south without giving Stormont a preview has been noted, especially by those living and working in border counties and now trying to navigate the two different sets of restrictions.
That Boris Johnson forged ahead with a plan that was open to interpretation, impossible to decipher and contained multiple mixed messages, has prompted the three devolved regions to act unilaterally as provide their own bespoke pathway out of crisis.
This has been a difficult time for so many people and it is far from over.
The government's employment retention scheme was welcome and important to so many people who would have found themselves jobless and on benefits otherwise.
However, hundreds of businesses, especially in the hospitality sector, will never open their doors again.
The furlough scheme is masking mass unemployment in sectors that will either be changed beyond recognition or simply fail to exist in the future.
Just a few short months ago this all would have been unthinkable, our lives, our priorities have changed dramatically in a blink of an eye.
So much of this has been negative in terms of poverty, isolation, mental health, domestic violence and the impact on children and young people living in economically deprived households.
For some people their normality wasn't good to start with and so a return to a new, potentially worse one is a complete disaster.
The future remains uncertain, a complete unknown, but above all we must keep hope, strive to help bring this crisis to an end as soon as possible.
The Stormont roadmap may not have dates attached but it does give an idea of what lies ahead and hopefully brings some clarity to the trajectory of this crisis.
Take care and look after each other.
