From Fomo to Nosmo: how not to let a crisis go to waste

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The coronavirus has forced us into a different mode of being human, one that allows us to recover our lost selves

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In these desperate times of social distancing or collective self-quarantine, Fomo is replaced with Nomo People sit on benches marked for safe distancing at a shopping mall as authorities implement a social distancing measures to combat the spread of the Covid-19. Picture: SUHAIMI ABDULLAH/GETTY IMAGES

We are only three months into 2020 and already “coronavirus” is being considered the uncontested title holder of “word of the year”. Who would have thought that the greatest disrupter of the technological age would turn out to be a silent, unseen virus capable of destroying economies and sending humans retreating into their homes with packs of toilet paper?

The coronavirus has changed the way we engage and associate with others. Social distancing is fast becoming the norm, so much so that this term is likely to be the runner-up in the contest for “word of the year”. The coronavirus pandemic is testing many of the assumptions of our interconnected, globalised world.

“This might partly explain why we’re struggling so much with being alone with ourselves,” says Tim Leberecht, co-founder and CEO of The Business Romantic Society. “It eliminates the option to be somebody else.” With the internet, we can now even escape our physical realities, using our smartphones as a portal into a virtual world where we can reinvent ourselves, exchanging a few deep genuine relationships for many shallow commoditised connections.

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