Mask On, Mask Off

I think we can all agree this is a weird time in the life of the pandemic. While we start to emerge from our various and very personal cocoons, we are doing so at different rates and at different comfort levels. We are seeing friends in person that we haven’t seen in many months, but do we go in for the hug or get blocked by the fist bump? I go for my daily walk (mask free), but still see the stranger (mask on), cross the street to avoid me. While the CDC gives us permission to go back to our pre-Covid lives in most situations, it seems that many of us prefer to continue the isolation. I think Neal Freyman’s commentary is fitting: “Pandemic-era habits die hard, but I’m confident we can once again rewire our brains to view other people not as biological vectors for disease, but as...people, just with germs. Here's to hoping this summer, we’ll learn to come together as quickly as we learned to distance.”