Social Distancing and the Fear Virus
3 min readMar 20, 2020
As coronavirus spreads around the world, we are required to make radical changes in our daily lives quickly. Perhaps the toughest is social distancing. We need to stop seeing our friends, getting together in groups, and even touching each other. Social distancing means suppressing our deeply innate and evolutionarily hard-wired impulses for connection. It is doubly challenging because when humans feel threated and distressed…