How is human communication changing because of the pandemic?

In today's article I would like to address the topic of human communication during the coronavirus pandemic. In writing this article here I will share my own thoughts on the subject, but like everything I try to do in life - based on knowledge, not "seeing me" and using critical thinking. Let me start by saying that I approach the issue not only from the obvious side, which is the transfer of information.

What does communication give us? It serves, and this is in my opinion its lion's share of the task, to discharge the so-called "tension threshold" (we remove it mainly during REM sleep). This is a natural adaptation to "handle" this process. It is worth paying attention to the naturalness of our behavior, because, at least in my opinion, we are obligatorily subject to it. We are animals. We are primates in the animal kingdom and are subject to the same processes as other animals - we eat, sleep, excrete, breathe, etc.

Communication

When thinking about communication we separate it into verbal and non-verbal. The ratio of them, respectively, is about 30%-70% (according to different sources, it varies a little). The huge preponderance of non-verbal communication comes to mind, doesn't it? This proves how important it is. In a telegraphic nutshell, this type of communication involves the "conversation" of our bodies. We are talking about the totality of stimuli sent by our organisms, and received by the interlocutor through all the senses. Smell, hearing, facial expressions or gestures - all of these collectively and at one time "speak" together with us. It is easy to see this from the example of what information we get when the interlocutor "brands" laughter. And when we see a person in whom the whole face is laughing, the eyes are laughing and the ears are making micro twitches - a colossal difference in information, right?

Communication vs. virus

Each of us has felt the effects of social isolation to a greater or lesser degree during this period. We can see with the naked eye how our lives have moved online to a much greater extent. What is interesting is that despite this, people naturally post videos of hanging out together in a smaller, sanitation-restricted group. This shows vividly how we garner contact within our own species - driven by the very needs I wrote about above.

Wy-naturation

What can such a change of accents natural to us in terms of communication, interacting with another human being, lead to? Does it "naturally" come to you to say that to nothing good? You think well. Lack of production and response to a stimulus, just as, for example, lack of vitamins causes negative consequences. Lack of vitamin C - our immunity decreases, long-term lack of it - say goodbye to teeth (scurvy). The same is true of communication and the whole range of stimuli of its non-verbal side. Among the different types of depression, the so-called environmental depression is singled out. It is a response to the occasional depravity of our environment - this is taking place (although fortunately to an increasingly lesser extent) now. It develops in the absence of satisfaction of our needs of this type and runs as dangerously as its "older" varieties.

We have moved online to a greater extent, more out of compulsion. And when the situation has clarified to the point where it is possible to communicate with each other more often in a way that is natural for our species - we do it. I personally see a healthy desire for contact in people. So I guess I can conclude that everything is fortunately slowly returning to normal.