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Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-quarantine-socializing/608020/

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-norway-quarantine/how-quarantine-in-my-childhood-home-brought-my-family-closer-idUSKBN21K23M

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“True, ‘tribe’ is a troublesome word, bearing the weight of decades of anthropological study that privileged Western civilization over all other traditions. But let us rescue it here, pare it down to its simplest meaning, as a name for the first human communities that formed beyond the primal bonds of kinship — the beginnings of the great experiment we call society, which taught us to be human. Before there was a self, there was the tribe.” – Ligaya Mishan, “What is a Tribe?” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/13/t-magazine/tribe-meaning.html

“The 1,200 miles between us are made smaller by technology. We talk on the phone and see each other on FaceTime, although my grandmother is still learning the fundamentals of video chatting and sometimes I end up looking up close at her ear for a bit.” – Ali Jaffe, “Cooking Through a Crisis with Grandma, Virtually” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/well/family/coronavirus-cooking-grandmother-facetime.html?searchResultPosition=10

“They FaceTime me. I’m 10 feet away, on coronavirus quarantine in the master bedroom, and I have been here for days. My partner, who has a demanding corporate law job, is now working from home and saddled with all of the physical work of child care, while I quack orders from the other side of the closed door.” – Kevin Noble Maillard, “Parenting by FaceTime in Coronavirus Quarantine” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/well/family/parenting-by-facetime-in-coronavirus-quarantine.html?searchResultPosition=11