How exactly do we re-emerge?

Social insights from a 17-year cicada.

As the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations continues to rise across the United States, many of us are preparing to come out of what feels like a long, lonely hibernation. We’ve been cloistered inside for more than a year now, and even as things get theoretically safer, it’s going to be a bit of an adjustment to go back out into the world. Our social graces ar…