Can NOT recommend virtual happy hours enough.
disease, also known as COVID-19, public health officials and scientists are recommending we stay away from large groups of people as much as possible—and even limit socializing in small groups in our own homes. This is leaving people feeling lonely, frustrated, and disconnected while they’re stuck at home in the name of saving lives.
Necessary though it may be to put your social life on hold, it’s not easy. “We’re anxious. We need reassurance. We want to believe that things are normal,”, Sc.D., social epidemiologist and the director of research at the Center for Public Health Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania, tells SELF. But since things are about as abnormal as any of us have ever experienced, she says, when it comes to connecting with others, “we have to be creative.
So, creative we will get! Here are a few ways my friends, my coworkers, and I are keeping our social lives alive. Please feel free to steal them.Let’s get this one out of the way first, because I am probably the 100th person to give you this tip at this point. But it bears repeating! Now is the time for a
and video-chat renaissance! Texting is great too, but when we’re trying to make up for the sudden drop in human-to-human contact, hearing your friends’ voices and seeing their faces is important. With a little creativity, a lot of the ways we socialize can be adapted to a virtual form. Keep traditions alive by, say, logging into Google Hangouts when you’d normally hit up happy hour. No one’s pretending that mixing a cocktail to drink alone on your couch while FaceTiming friends is the same as going out to a bar, but it’s better than nothing. And honestly, if you’re anything like me and my friends , you might actually find it to be an improvement.
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