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Social Distance

Will You Merge Bubbles With Me?

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

New rituals and ethical conundrums of dating and socializing are beginning to reveal themselves. Staff writer Joe Pinsker joins to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Jim Hamblin.

0:05.0

Hello and welcome to social distance.

0:09.0

Coming at you every hour on the top of the hour from the heart of the worst time ever. I'll give you that one. It was pretty good. I'll

0:27.0

I just feel like we could clean things up around here but make it a little more

0:31.2

professional. make it a little more professionally.

0:37.0

True. Yeah, it's a good point. I don't know if Alvin has any sound effects I could use occasionally,

0:41.0

like a honking horn or a sure yeah yeah when someone says

0:47.3

something funny let's see me. to lighten things up around here, you know.

1:03.0

Oh gosh.

1:07.0

All right.

1:08.0

Okay, so what's the state of quote unquote reopening?

1:13.2

Oh, reopening.

1:15.2

Oops now it's just auto-playing.

1:17.2

But it was all time.

1:20.2

Well, as you might remember in March, President Trump said would be, churches would be packed

1:26.7

by Easter, which was April 12th.

1:30.1

Then has continued to say that we are going to, you know, we're on the verge constantly of quote

1:36.6

unquote reopening and I'm always unclear exactly what that means and I think it's wrong as a premise but some

1:48.1

states are sort of lifting restrictions however loose they were to begin with.

1:53.0

Right.

1:54.0

And one of the things we've gotten a lot of questions about, and I have a lot of questions about, is

1:58.5

like, what are we allowed to do now?

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