Social Norms Can Spread Like A Virus
5 min readOct 28, 2020
For the 90% of Americans now ordered to stay home (up from 20% just a week ago ) to stave off the risk of catching and spreading the novel coronavirus, keeping a strict distance from others is beginning to feel like the new normal. Every other conversation is peppered with observations from friends, family and coworkers on how much has changed in such little time, and how easily we have found ourselves slipping into new…