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# Changes
- URL: https://cje.io/2020/03/23/changes/
- Published: 2020-03-23T23:18:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-09T01:03:18.000Z
- Author: Casey Ellis
- Tags: Security, Learn

You know that awkward thing at the moment when you see someone and go to shake their hand or hug them, then pull away… and then feel like a jerk because of the implied social signal?

> **Is this bow too close?*

Literally the entire world is going through versions of that right now.

> **If I keep kissing on both cheeks will we end up like Italy?*

Cultural greetings and traditions that we take for granted often have weird origins – The 1918 pandemic gave us “God bless you” when people sneeze, and the handshake has its origins in the Wild West to show someone that you weren’t armed.

> **What the hell are us Eskimos meant to do… Everyone thinks the nose thing is super cute.*

This situation will play out in two phases – The crisis phase, and the normalized phase.

> **Did my comrade properly sanitize the outside of this shot of Vodka?*

I’m praying, hoping, and acting for the best health and economic outcomes from [#covid19](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/covid19?source=feed%5Ftext&epa=HASHTAG), but the scale and diversity of the lasting impressions it will leave in the normalized phase are pretty mind-blowing thing to consider.