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There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation (fedia.io)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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People who haven't really resumed socializing at levels they used to, people who lost the capacity to regulate during interpersonal interactions, people who lost trust in others... I encounter lots of partial returners out there

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I think their point is that, with effort, it can be become a thing of the past.

However, so many are unwilling to put forth the effort because it's either too inconvenient or they've been brainwashed into believing it's a hoax.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Maybe people who lived in red states developed this notion that no one put in the effort but where I live we certainly did on a large scale and it did not eliminate the virus. Other cultures who already had a healthy practice of masking when sick still got hit with COVID. This notion that we could have eliminated it if people had just put in a tiny effort… I don’t know where y’all are getting that from.