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    2 Competing Impulses Will Drive Post-pandemic Social Life

    Some people will want to go out as often as they can. Others won’t be able to forget how nice it is to sit at home on the couch.
    by Joe Pinsker Apr 23, 2021 5 minutes
    Source: Andrew Testa / The New York Times / Redux; Mark Peterson / Redux / The Atlantic

    A post-pandemic discussion question: You get home from work on a Friday night and change into sweatpants. It’s been an exhausting week. A text message comes in. Your good friend wants to know if you’d like to meet up last minute for a drink, which is something that’s safe to do again. You’d love to catch up, but you’re pretty tired. Do you go?

    This choose-your-own-adventure—or choose-your-own-lack-of-adventure—scenario is one that more Americans will start facing again soon, and their answer will indicate which of two competing post-pandemic impulses they feel more strongly.

    On the one hand, people will be freshly aware that they shouldn’t take the ability to attend social gatherings for granted. On the other, they also will have experienced, albeit involuntarily, the occasional pleasures of having

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