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Is it Safe to Expand Our Bubbles?
As the coronavirus pandemic drags on, people are slowly expanding their "bubbles" of people they see. Julia Marcus, infectious disease epidemiologist and assistant professor in the department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, talks about what's safe to do, and how people can begin to inch toward some social interactions -- especially since many people are doing it already, anyway.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/quarantine-fatigue-real-and-shaming-people-wont-help/611482/