This is a social distance, the Atlantic's podcast about the pandemic.

I'm Jim Hamblin, a doctor and staff writer at The Atlantic.

And I am Mae Higgins. I'm a comedian and a writer.

Hi, Ma'am, how are you? I'm not too bad. Are you still in lockdown,

Mave? Still in lockdown. You know, the anniversaries are kind of taking by aren't they like the

last thing I wrote was you know a year it's been a year and now it's been basically like a year in a month.

Much less auspicious

um, anniversaries.

It's like, you know when people have children and they keep doing photos of them holding blocks and it's like 63 months old today.

But um you're not cute anymore pandemic.

You're walking around and you're biting people. This needs to stop.

Oh man, the terrible twos. I know, it's tantruming big time. Yeah no one likes it everyone wants it to be over and

yet things are quite bad in Europe and and you're quite in lockdown and things are as we discussed last week in limbo here.

Yeah, how are you feeling? Are you surviving mentally?

Surviving mentally. I mean I definitely think like talking to people about it helps and I was

writing about like the small things we miss which on this show we talk about like you know the worst

aspects of the pandemic how dangerous it is and that's so important

but I was also wondering like the small things people missed and one girl on Instagram said to me that like she and her sister used to go into

stores just browsing and the way they'd signal they were finished shopping was

they'd say like okay I've touched everything.

Like you just go into a store and just touch things for kicks.

Yeah I realized I missed that too.

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