How lockdowns turned us into antisocial goblins – and why it matters

Simone Rotella

RECENTLY, immoderate colleagues of excavation enactment connected a nationalist wellness conference. More than 80 radical registered for the in-person-only event, and we ordered coffees and snacks for a small nether that fig – assuming, arsenic is the norm, that 20 to 30 per cent of radical would driblet out.

Surprisingly, it was person to 90 per cent. Only a fistful of radical showed up. We were shocked and distressed, and started speculating astir wherefore the turnout was truthful bad. Then idiosyncratic mentioned that this benignant of happening is much communal aft the covid-19 lockdowns: radical conscionable don’t similar leaving their homes …