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Touch: Will the Coronavirus Cause Us to Lose Touch?
Touch is vital to our mental, physical, and emotional well-being.
“Every morning, we would gather in the workroom, hold hands, and we would all affirm how great today will be and how talented we all are, and we’re gonna crush it,” a friend of mine explained to my best friend Roslyn and me how she and her colleagues start the mornings on her job.
“But since this Coronavirus thing,” she continued, “No one holds hands anymore. Some people don’t even come to the workroom for morning affirmations. I remember how we would all crowd in, standing shoulder to shoulder and laughing. It made a difference. It set the tone for our day.”
She shrugged, “Oh well. I guess a lot’s about to change.”
I felt for her at that moment, but I felt for us all.
Shook and quite dismayed as we headed down an unusually quiet Poplar Avenue on a Friday evening after 5:00 p.m. to the Concourse in Memphis, Tennessee, I wondered, “Has the Coronavirus pandemic forever changed our greatest soul to soul connection, physical touch?”
In other words, are we losing touch?
We can go into a large spill about what the coronavirus is and who has been affected…
