I appreciate all the optimism and I long for when we can all be back together on Broadway. However, what I feel others are neglecting to talk about is that people are traumatized. There are the outliers who are parading around grocery stores without masks and demanding for things to be open. However I feel the majority of people are quite shell shocked about being around others. People are skittish about being touched, breathed on, or even next to another person. People are being conditioned to fear one another. This could take years to heal from.
When the quarantine started I noticed people were acknowledging each other more and practicing kindness in public. That has seemed to have dwindled since masks were introduced. People appear more inward, anxious and tentative. People appear less comfortable around each other and get agitated when they feel they are too close to someone. This will not disappear overnight. I wonder how this will affect everything. People are completely freaked out by each other and attempts to touch, even in kindness, are considered affronts and disrespect.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
