Can we talk about modern Social Anthropology here?

[sanatanadharma]

2. In Uruguay, Covid caused a seismic social behavior change

In Uruguay, Covid caused a seismic social behavior change in one small social ritual, the cheek kiss greeting.
In Uruguay this one-sided, right cheek to right cheek social greeting was ubiquitous.
I'd watch as everything is interrupted in offices, clinics, schools, bureaucracy, or sidewalk strolsl, by each coming or going neighbor or employee at shift change.

It is sad to see less of this kiss.

Before Covid, the kiss and the shared bombilla (yerba mate drinking straw) quite likely helped the nation with herd-immunity to the locally common dis-eases. The bombilla also gave me the worst gripe (flu) of my North American life, days after my first pass the mate' experience, a few months after arriving in South America.