To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. The pandemic had the audacity to slow down right before the start of beach season in the Hamptons, just as the parade of fresh lockdown facelifts started to trickle back onto the sand. The threat of recall to an office in muggy New York City, in some cases as soon as June, has people with actual jobs, whose biggest summer worry is the threat of a rosé drought or passing out from a blood sugar plunge while waiting for a table at Duryea’s in Montauk, and who have camped out at their Hamptons houses since last March, melting down at the thought of having to abruptly end their Zoom-from-the-beach lifestyle.