Hey, you're listening to Rough Translation from NPR.

I'm Gregory Warner.

Last month, our Jerusalem correspondent, Daniel Estren,

was doing what so many of us were doing.

On lockdown.

Kind of sitting on the couch with nothing to do

and my partner and I are in our apartment

and we're not going out like 100 meters from our home

and we're watching Instagram together.

Scrolling past too many sourdough starters

and mask selfies, scrolling and scrolling.

Like every once in a while, I'll be like,

whoa, check this out.

Then he finds this video.

You see about a dozen people in a carpeted hotel lobby

doing this funny macarena move together?

It's Zumba.

And this is not Zumba by Zoom.

It's just in person, no masks breathing all over each other.

Zumba.

The reason they can do this without any social distancing

is because they are at a hotel for people

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