The return of hugs will be a moment of joy. Just not for me
I want to hug the people I love; the people I merely like, or don’t know well, not so much
9 May 2021 • 6:00pm
When future historians consider the impact of Covid-19, the statistics will tell an eloquent story of grievous human loss. But what of the less tangible effects, for which no hard data exist? Compared with the experiences of those directly affected by the virus, the travails of those who survived relatively unscathed may seem minor. Yet the sense of “languishing”, a condition defined by the psychologist Adam Grant in a recent