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There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation (fedia.io)
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People who haven't really resumed socializing at levels they used to, people who lost the capacity to regulate during interpersonal interactions, people who lost trust in others... I encounter lots of partial returners out there

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"he means the ones just staying at home. Not the ones covid killed. "

as far as I can tell, yes.

you call people killed by covid "those left behind"?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you not? Or is this like the sixth sense sort of thing, where they just kinda hang around for you?

......wait, am I bruce willis?

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

judging by your username, you share certain similarities with Bruce Willis.

and he seems to forget who he is these days, so yeah you might actually be Bruce Willis.

no, I've never heard covid victims called "those left behind", that is a rather morbid bit of prose from your part of the world.