1/ The idea we will have a sharp snapback in socializing and sex post-Covid has become conventional wisdom. I understand why people want to believe it. Unfortunately I’ve grown to think they’re probably wrong, for multiple reasons... https://twitter.com/nachristakis/status/1355524445486592004
2/ Dating and sex among young people had been in secular decline for over a decade, probably due to Internet/social media addiction (forget the idiotic heavy breathing about Tinder hookup culture, this is true - the stats are clear). Covid has worsened Internet dependence...
3/ That isn’t going to reverse.

Plus Covid won’t burn out all at once. And even after it does, the media won’t let it go. Look at the talk of new strains. The 1918 flu was genuinely terrible. People wanted to forget it. Not this time; many of us now love the kingdom of the sick.
4/ And a surprising number of people appear comfortable- at least in the medium-term - living alone, with little or no human interaction. Netflix and Amazon, your friends forever.

Eventually the fear will fade and that will change. I hope.
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