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Ron's avatar

I enjoyed reading your musings in this piece Ava. I too feel that my life is in some kind of a Covid holding pattern. It is most noticeable for me in dating, or rather in not dating, since I have not gone on a date since the pandemic began. As someone who has dated a lot in my life (maybe too much), I know that you can only determine chemistry face to face, regardless of how many texts, phone calls or Zoom sessions have occurred. I have friends who have taken the approach of Zooming interminably only to build up impossible expectations about someone they have never "really" met, since it needs to be worth it to risk potential exposure to Covid. Invariably these first face to face meetings have failed to live up to their inflated expectations. So I wait instead, for enough people to get vaccinated that the mathematics balance out again: many first dates, fewer repeat dates, fewer still 2-3 month relationships and then, if all goes well an actual long term relationship. So many exposures for me to navigate, once my main risk is once again merely emotional rather than physical.

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Phil Marfisi's avatar

Please do write about the influencer economy, even in an essay - really interested to read your thoughts on that

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