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I really do not like the term “social distancing”. To me, it sounds like it would mean to cut off relationships, to excommunicate one another, when what is really meant is to separate physically, while finding other means to enjoy our relationships with each other. I wish the marketing intern that likely created the term had asked what connotations it carried in people’s minds.
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Agreed. To me it sounds like "social alienation".
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A week ago I was musing about the same question. As I can understand why people don't like the term "social distancing", I came to think that it is an adequate term, because the means that are left for "communication" don't facilitate connection but only a pale substitute of it. So, in fact, the means of communication we're left with, although they create an illusion of connection, in fact separate us and confine us to our cocoons. We don't experience contact, but re-eanct the mode of it, from our recollection. The term, ironically, proves adequate.
Cf. @pleroma.site/notice/9tBWCLtdaUQblIBOd6 if you like the broader context.