Is pandemic isolation destroying our social skills?
Can we talk about talking? Specifically how bad we’re all getting at it. Seven months in, the pandemic has claimed our wardrobes and our waistlines, and now it’s coming for our personalities, too.

As the pandemic wears on, wiping out every known activity — and things we didn’t even consider activities, like getting a haircut — we’re starting to look back with nostalgia at small talk.

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