How Do Extraverts Manage the Pandemic?

If hell is truly other people, as Jean-Paul Sartre famously said, the lack of them is worse, especially for extraverts, who are energized by the social surround. This time of social distancing is easier for introverts, who take pleasure in their own company or that of a small number of important others. But even for them, extended periods of being totally alone can be psychologically draining and depressing.

Human beings are social by nature, but in this pandemic we are all adjusting our proxemics, which is how anthropologists describe the protective bubble of personal space that…