Friends Who Are Not So Much: How a Pandemic Has Selected Your Best Relationships

The state of alarm surprised Alejandro in Honduras, and the confinement, an ocean in between, canceled flights, closed borders and a difference of eight hours with the Spanish time zone make it difficult (and very much) to relate.

He noticed it well.

“It was not possible to keep in contact continuously.

People were more and more apathetic, without interest or topic of conversation, ”he says.

But you don't have to be on another continent for you to notice the dent that the pandemic has made.

Even in the same city, the restrictions force us to select who we want to see and leave out others.

One deci ...

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