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How is Covid impacting Human Behavior & Relationships ?

How is Covid impacting Human Behavior & Relationships ? "Isolation is a stress-producing state, as one of our human needs is for connections" — Sylvia Whitlock                      Rotary Club of Claremont, California, USA Covid-19 hit planet earth officially on Jan 2020 and its been nearly a year and half while it still continues to go stronger and impact human lives. With health workers at risk, hospital equipment like oxygen, critical medicines, vaccines in short supply, and death rates from the coronavirus spiking by the day, governments all over the world have mandated ‘social distancing’, closed schools and most businesses, and ordered everyone but essential service workers to stay home. In response, parents like my wife and I have cancelled our children’s play dates and any exposure to the outside world. Nursing homes have banned visits to the elderly, who are most at risk from this virus. So much of the socialising that we all took for granted – concerts, live cri