How social distancing could wash away your interpersonal skills

Prior to arriving on my first recruiting duty tour in the Navy, networking on a ship was the greatest skill I ever developed. Knowing the right people to call to get a job done was mission-critical. Friends with benefits.

Wash Away Your Skills

One of the things I loved about recruiting in the Navy most was the people. The first-hand stories you would hear and the things you learn from them when you cross their paths.

The Navy allowed a small-town Texas kid like me to travel the construct more extensively, and explore what it has to offer. There are so many beautiful spectacles I’ve yet to see out there yet. But first, let's wash our hands.

A social skill is any competence facilitating interaction and communication with others where social rules and relations are created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways. The process of learning these skills is called socialization. Lack of such skills can cause social awkwardness.

With increased lockdown social distancing restrictions across the nation are we washing away our interpersonal skills too as a result? It’s really difficult to hold a conversation with a mask, let alone at a distance at six feet with one. I've only recently mastered not forgetting my mask in the car.

Isolation separates sick people with a contagious disease from people who are not sick.
Quarantine separates and restricts the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick.

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