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Is it a phase or a new normal?

25 May 2020
Phokeng Rustenburg
Tumi Mokgatle

Wearing of mask and elbow greeting is the in thing a new pattern of socialising. It’s amazing that few are adapting subconsciously.
A few days I witnessed few people standing chatting but had spaces in between them.
I cannot be sure if they were deliberate or it happened organically.

Pocket sanitizers are carried by few primary those who can afford but the mask seem to a new clothing wear.

Handshakes seem to be a culture of yesterday. What is interesting is that office workers who may not be exposed to the virus have adopted working from home whilst majority who may be exposed are allowed to go to work.

The phase cements the various capitalism law of society that some people are more equal than others.