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Social Distancing Has Actually Made Us More Social
You’ve already experienced much more social interactions than you ever imagined.
That sounds crazy and definitely a statement our healthcare professionals would hate to read but hear me out.
Social distancing has changed us forever. This experience has done that by making us more social.
Think about life before COVID-19 ravaged our country. We’d wake up, go to work, talk to the same few people we always do, go home, watch TV, text a few people, maybe talk on the phone with some loved ones if we have time, and then go to bed. On the weekends, we hang out with the same few people in the same couple of places. We’d have more conversations with our pets than actual humans. Our life was a routine that focused on ourselves and our family… until now.
When we all learned that we were in for the long haul, the first thing many of us did was learn about Zoom.
This meeting conference app immediately became a central part of our lives. For work, we had frequent faculty meetings — something us employees pushed for often over the course of the last couple of years. My bosses…
