How the pandemic is keeping families more than two meters apart

Headline Diplomat eJournal - Issue 1, Series 2
The perilous lenses of COVID-19: The sociopolitical impact
Writes Charles Thomas, Journalist, Headline Diplomat eJournal
Social and family relationship during the pandemic is sometimes reduced to seeing life from the balcony of the house. The pandemic has changed the way humans coexist; the way of relating to others and with the environment. This is especially during its peak period, identified as April 14 in the U.S. by the HealthData.org.

According to a research by Sheryl Hamilton from Carleton University, in Ottawa, which was carried out with the anthropologist Neil Gerlach, we are entering what she calls a “pandemic culture,” which is going to modify the way we interact with friends, families, and with the external world.

According to her, awareness of the disease – more present today in general – is going to cause accelerated changes in social rituals and in the way we perceive and handle the "bubble of personal space."  For Hamilton, several of these changes may remain even when the worst of the pandemic has passed, something that could bring long-term cultural risks.

She said in an interview with the Wired UK: “It’s ...