Are you already tired of social distancing? Have you had enough of trying to explain video chats to your grandma? Or pretending that you're going to use this free time to get super jacked? Sorry to break it to you, but with increasing populations and climate change, pandemics are likely to become more frequent, which means that this kind of social distancing might become the new norm. How could prolonged social distancing be bad for your health?

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