Listen up, Myers-Briggs and horoscope devotees. After two years in an ever-evolving world of the ever-mutating coronavirus, there’s a new way to understand your friend group, which has likely undergone some changes. While there have always been bad manners friends and friends in a unique life transition (such as having a baby), we’re a little whiplashed with how everyone we know can be classified in particular mindsets about this global health crisis. While we’re all about you do you, sometimes we find ourselves waking up 15 minutes into a conversation with a pal, noticing how they’re a bit over-excited, and we can just make out words like suspicious virus, extinction event and corporate profit motive, to which we weakly reply, “And how is your mom doing?”
In the interest of building bridges, not blowing them up, we have a few guidelines for not only identifying the 10 pandemic personalities in your friend group, but also a few rehearsed lines for communicating with them. (But remember…there’s always slowly backing toward the door…)