While announcing her new order limiting social interactions, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry admitted it could be “very challenging for those who live alone.”
Vancouver resident Kyla Lee describes the situation as “a choice between breaking the rules or having no contacts at all.”
The order asks people living in the Lower Mainland to avoid social gatherings with anyone outside of their immediate household, leaving many who live alone speculating whether their former “safe six” is now a safe one or two – or if any social interaction at all is safe.
“Now you have this anxiety about where you stand with your friends and whether you feel the same about them as they feel about you,” Lee, a Vancouver lawyer said about deciding which friends to include in her new reduced social circle.
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