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    Lockdown may be over, but you'll never take my Zoom quiz away

    Online pub quizzes brought me and my friends closer together. And besides, who wants to go for a socially distanced pint?Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage
    by Joel Golby Jul 01, 2020 4 minutes
    ‘A couple of weeks ago we had to have The Talk: would we continue the quiz once the pubs reopened? It was broadly decided that, yes, we would.’ Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

    When anthropologists sift back through the raft of data we have created in lockdown, they’ll be able to see clear trends of social chaos, like gradients of mud dappled through ancient rock: the pre-lockdown toilet roll stampede; the post-lockdown banana bread era; that week we all installed , because we thought it’d be fun; that week we all uninstalled Houseparty, because we believed a about data. We’re in a different season of lockdown now, one of clumsy hope, a widespread lean in to an idea of a new normal, that beach visits can be augmented with the anarchic thrill of

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