The general take is that the #Corona Virus situation tears people apart and will make them lonely. With my brother I recently had a conversation on how it will maybe cause the opposite in the mid-term. [1/X]

Just imagine this situation will continue, or other such viruses come, and you can only really hang out with 10 people, or have to proactively call to spend time. A shallow hangout, coffee or party talk is less likely to happen.
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We assumed that many people will take much more care about who they will surround themselves with. Those people will they feel secure, loved, supported and are have fun with. A lot of break-ups are likely to happen in the coming months.
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Being intentional about your social circle and spending more time will likely increase the depth of relationships, while the quantity of connections decreases in the short-term. However, it may lead to a transformation of the individual that reverses this in the mid-term.
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This is bc having 10 people you really feel home with is often all it takes to free yourself from anxieties of belonging, that lead to antisocial behaviour. It may fundamentally transform people to become more kind to one another, even to those that are outside their tribe.
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This may give birth to a new form of healthy tribalism, intentional families or microsolidarity communities like @RichDecibels laid out in fantastic blogpost series. https://medium.com/microsolidarity/courage-before-hope-a-proposal-to-weave-emotional-and-economic-microsolidarity-87bc81372a09
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I am here in quarantine in the Black Forest with @battagliaem, @HenLovelyBird, @oliviakhando, my partner, my brothers and my mother. I experience first hand right now how those bonds are strengthening, giving me emotional stability and transforming me to be a better human.
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It gives me hope. [8/fin]