“Any place there’s a high density of people, it then becomes the issue of do I really want to be here especially because in the next couple of years at least there is always a chance of a new flare-up.”ĬORONAVIRUS: What we are scared - and hopeful - about right now In the interview with the Dayton Daily News, Scalzi wondered how long it would be before people would feel comfortable cramming into concert halls, bars or science-fiction conventions. “In the end, though, I suspect a simple wave ‘hello’ will do the trick: an acknowledgment and a sign of potential friendship and an understanding that sometimes a little distance is kind, not rude,” he wrote. In a Washington Post piece, Scalzi wrote about being on a cruise ship full of sci-fi geeks when the virus started spreading and wondering with fellow passengers if handshakes would be forever replaced with elbow bumps, the Vulcan greeting or Wakanda salute. “What I think is eventually going to happen is, and what I have happen in the books is, at the end of it all when the infection rates drop and people start coming out of their homes, we’re going to find there is a new normal that is not exactly 100 percent like it was before but is something that everybody can go: ‘OK, we can get on with our lives.’” RELATED: A Q&A with sci-fi author John Scalzi So the Dayton Daily News asked Scalzi to play the part of a futurist and consider how this historical moment might reshape society. But our current situation feels, for many, like a dystopian book or movie.
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