As coronavirus makes social distancing mandatory, what felt convenient and comfy feels different.
I watched a crowd of tourists in the forecourt of what I still callplace their hands, as they’ve always done, into the much-touched cement handprints of stars.
At first I thought I was mourning the enforced separation from each other that we were just about to start experiencing. Then I realized I was mourning a togetherness already on the way out — from a long ago age before Amazon, before Netflix, before Postmates. Before giant flat-screen home TVs with surround sound, before virtual reality.
Because in the modern age, in ordinary circumstances, a lot of us increasingly keep to ourselves. After all, it’s become so very easy and convenient. Everything changed in a flash, dictated by necessity. Social distance was no longer theoretical, isolation no longer optional., working at jobs without offices, going whole days without real human contact. Now we’re all in that boat.will do the trick and slow down the community spread of coronavirus. I’m willing to do anything to help make that happen. I think we all have to be all in to do that.
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