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Emerging from our COVID Bunkers

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I was at a socially distanced, masked, birthday party for a friend who just turned 50  and we started talking about how we thought the world would be after it was safe to really socialize after COVID.   We wondered about the survival of the tradition of shaking hands for hello and goodbye in some cultures.  Will the French and other Europeans abandon the  two-cheek kissing greeting?   There will clearly be post-covid changes to get used to worldwide and everyone will be affected. Since kissing and handshaking are not that embedded into US culture,  what will be different for Americans?  I wonder if we will still be comfortable packing into bars, concerts, and sporting events like we did pre-covid Most psychological researchers think that in the US post-COVID anxiety will take one of two forms.   Lingering fears of contamination and infection even though the pandemic will be controlled.  Social anxiety after being isolated for so long  Lingering fears After so much mandated mask-weari