My cousin Ben (whom I suspect is reading this) told me of an awesome word he recently coined. The word is “coronawave”. <\/p>\n
It refers to a social phenomenon very specific to this pandemic. It happens when you are walking along the road, and a stranger is walking in the other direction.<\/p>\n
Inevitably, one of you will cross to the other side of the road, to maintain social distancing. And that’s when it happens.<\/p>\n
As the two you you pass each other, you both smile and give each other a big friendly wave. That’s the coronawave.<\/p>\n
Here’s the interesting bit. If there had been no pandemic, the two of you would most likely have completely ignored each other. But now you’re all warm and friendly.<\/p>\n
It makes sense. You both feel awkward that you are each making a wide berth around the other, and you want to do something to help make it ok. So you give each other a big friendly smile and wave.<\/p>\n
As social rituals go, this one is actually rather sweet. Now let’s see whether we can all manage to keep the ritual going after this pandemic is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My cousin Ben (whom I suspect is reading this) told me of an awesome word he recently coined. The word is “coronawave”. It refers to a social phenomenon very specific to this pandemic. It happens when you are walking along the road, and a stranger is walking in the other direction. Inevitably, one of you … Continue reading “Coronawave”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22161,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22160\/revisions\/22161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}