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Heard in TV, all infectious disease numbers are down here this year. I wonder whether we will ever get back to touching non-family people, just to be friendly. Feel bad sometimes for kids growing up now. Not sure what long-term effects of distancing and so much obedience will be.

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> whether we will ever get back to touching non-family people,

I've been invited to three orgies, with dates TBD ("as soon as this ('gestures around') is over", one says). So maybe we'll have an entirely newfound appreciation of touch.

... I didn't know that was a thing. I'm naïve.

Or, you've not been infected by the idiota-virus that's spreading through apparently 90% of the population where everyone's trying their best to make up for lost time by such activities.

The Moronavirus is not a hoax...been here for a while.

It will probably take time but we've been here before as human race while knowing how infectious diseases spread. I am a bit worried for the children in delicate age right now who need to learn right now socializing, seeing human emotions, train their immunity systems etc. Adults can have gap year or more, different with children.

The Japanese have had more sensible traditions around (not) touching strangers I think. Wouldn't be the worst thing if those are adopted elsewhere. Hugging strangers like in the US or kissing when you meet people like in some places in the middle east is odd in comparison.

Yeah right, let's all live like unemotional robots.

Devoid of any context, the implication that the Japanese "live like unemotional robots" comes across as unilaterally racist. Given that they are human beings, it is reasonable to assume most of their social conventions fulfill their emotional day-to-day needs.

On the other hand hand-washing is severely deficient there.

I would not mind. When we get back to office, cubicles will be way more problematic than a handshake.

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