![]() It could become second nature to recoil from shaking hands or touching our faces-and we might all find we can’t stop washing our hands. How quickly that awareness recedes will be different for different people, but it can never vanish completely for anyone who lived through this year. We know now that touching things, being with other people and breathing the air in an enclosed space can be risky. ![]() This loss of innocence, or complacency, is a new way of being-in-the-world that we can expect to change our doing-in-the-world. ![]() Now, the 1918 flu pandemic is a sudden specter in our lives. The 2008 financial crisis told us we also can suffer the calamities of past eras, like the economic meltdown of the Great Depression. On 9/11, Americans discovered we are vulnerable to calamities we thought only happened in distant lands. Deborah Tannen is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown and author, most recently, of You’re the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women’s Friendships.
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