Updated On: 01 April, 2020 07:08 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
How is a lockdown, even if mandated by the state, any different from what we do with ourselves every day, anyway?

No matter how much of a misanthrope or socially awkward you are, is it possible for someone to remain permanently in a state of social-distance? Pic/Istock
Few drinks down, to use popular 'Americanese', I identify myself as an extrovert. Anybody who's known me sober for long (and therefore, usually quiet, dead-boring), will vehemently disagree with my personal identification. What does that make me? Just like you, an ambivert. By turns introvert and extrovert — depending on time, place or location, and company.
No matter how much of a misanthrope or socially awkward you are, is it possible for someone to remain permanently in a state of social-distance, which effectively means being physically secluded from other humans, even if socially in touch? Whether or not it is temporarily mandated by the state, as precaution against a transmitting virus? Let's see.