We're not there yet - but we can see how we might get there.
It's a tentative, one-foot-after-the-other plan.
"These are cautious first steps but important first steps," Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday.
"You know, you can stay under the doona forever and you'll never face any danger. But we've gotta get out from under the doona at some time."
The prime minister's three steps to a reopening of the economy and of a semblance of normal life has no timetable - it will depend on the states and territories - but it is a clear picture of where we are moving.
What does the route-map indicate?
Stage 1:
- Five visitors at home, 10 in business and public places
- Work from home if it works for you and your employer
- Restaurants, cafes and shopping open but with distance rules
- Libraries, community centres, playgrounds and boot camps open
- Local and regional travel
Stage 2:
- Gatherings of 20 in your home, business and public places
- Work from home if it works for you and your employer
- Gyms, beauty therapists, cinemas, galleries and amusement parks open
- Caravan or camping grounds
- Some interstate travel
Stage 3:
- Gathering sizes increased to 100
- Return to workplace
- Nightclubs, food courts, saunas open
- All interstate travel
- Consider cross-Tasman, Pacific island and international students travel
In Stages 2 and 3, "States and territories may allow larger numbers in some circumstances".
Will we be able to dine out again?
Not like we used to.
Forget the grand birthday (or Mother's Day) celebration or the lunchtime get-together. The relaxed Stage 1 rules still won't allow many restaurants to cater for indoor customers.
Restaurants will be allowed to sit 10 people but there must be "an average density" of four square metres per person.
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It's not clear if that means that diners will have sit in separate squares two metres by two metres?
"Allowing 10 people in a one-person-per-four-square-metre distance in small cafes and restaurants means many won't be able to open," chief medical officer Brendan Murphy said.
"But many doing takeaway may want to put up enough distance tables to start gently serving 10 people at a time."
Food courts stay closed for sit-down eating until Stage 3. So do nightclubs.
In the second stage, Mr Morrison said gatherings of no more than 20 people will be allowed, including at gyms (if you regard that as fun), beauty shops, cinemas, galleries and amusement parks.
Gatherings at caravan parks and camping grounds will also be allowed, albeit within the raised 20 person limit.
Pubs and clubs will have to wait.
Mr Morrison did not stipulate how cinemas, for example, might operate on restricted numbers but the implication is that there will need to be empty seats between patrons.
And when do we get back to normal work?
The timing is not fixed. But the government foresees working from home until Stage 3 when "all Australians return to work with physical distancing and hygiene".
What are the economic benefits?
The government is balancing conflicting factors: keeping Australia safe from the pandemic; preventing the economy going into a nosedive; measuring the willingness of Australians to keep up this restrictive life.
The government says its plan will add $3 billion in economic activity a month in Stage 1, enough to put 250,000 people in work.
It reckons the second stage will boost the economy by another $3 billion per month, restoring a further 275,000 jobs.
The third stage would add about $3.3 billion a month and restore about 325,000 jobs.
This adds up to nearly a million jobs - about the same as the number currently registered as unemployed.
This cannot mean that all the currently unemployed will find work but, if the figures are borne out, nearly 1 million who might lose their jobs without the relaxations might not do so.
But don't bank on the figures. How hard Australia will be hit depends on the global economy - and that looks terrible.
Is this a one-way route back to normality?
It is not. It is clear that if there were a second wave of illness, the current or tougher restrictions might have to be reimposed.
But Mr Morrison was very loathe to say that. He indicated he wanted it to be a one-way street.
"It's like the emu and the kangaroo, they go forward, not backwards. And that's how this has to work. Premiers and chief ministers are very keen to ensure that you continue to move forward," he said.
But he added that the government would "act on the health advice".
The coronavirus has not been eradicated from Australia, let alone other parts of the world.
Where do we fit in?
The government urges us to keep keeping our distance and washing our hands frequently. There will be much more testing plus an "enhanced ability" to work out who has been in contact with infected people.
What should we do?
The government says: "Maintain 1.5-metre physical distancing. Maintain hand hygiene. Practice respiratory hygiene (don't cough over people). Stay home when sick. Download the COVIDSafe app."
And it advises vulnerable people to "continue to stay home where possible".
There should be "restricted travel to remote and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities".
And we should balance "aged care restrictions" with the "need for family and social contact".