Dating at a Distance

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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How do people date six feet apart? CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the ways in which people are finding new relationships, as well as overcoming loneliness and the lack of physical touch during this pandemic. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I started online dating right about when this was all happening.
0:06.6	Connecting with someone virtually is really funny.
0:09.0	You kind of had to do this game when you get on and be like, okay, what about a hangout?
0:12.9	Well, did you have Zoom?
0:14.3	What if we try FaceTime over this?
0:16.0	You kind of do this negotiation before even getting on to the date.
0:20.2	Finding that special someone was already hard before a global pandemic.
0:25.2	Now I can't even begin to imagine what dating is like, considering that we're all
0:29.9	isolated at home.
0:32.1	How do you make a genuine connection to a computer screen?
0:35.7	How does a relationship survive without intimacy or physical touch?
0:39.9	How can we feel a sense of closeness when we're physically apart?
0:44.8	I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent.
0:48.6	And this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.
0:51.6	Should people still date?
1:00.8	Everything is a blind date?
1:02.2	No, no blind dates.
1:04.0	Tinder?
1:05.0	Definitely not.
1:06.0	Definitely.
1:07.0	But even before this, no Tinder.
1:08.0	I'm kidding.
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