I mean, they have to trust you that you're telling them the truth. What are the biggest challenges? I imagine trust is key. GARCIA-NAVARRO: This sounds like a very detailed discussion, almost like a marriage pact. And so for the past week or so, I've been visiting them. And after that discussion, they said sure, OK, come on over. And we discussed what kind of things we'd been doing, how we wash our groceries, what we do when we come in from outside, how we meet other people, if we're meeting anybody at all. And could you do that for a couple of weeks? So effectively, they were saying, let's start the quarantine period from zero. We would want you to be wearing a mask when you go outside. And I said well, how would you feel about being part of a pod? We talked about, what are the precautions that each of us is taking to prevent catching the virus one way or another? And they were already wearing a mask every time they went outside.
And talking to friends on Zoom just doesn't cut it. LICHFIELD: Well, I was feeling pretty isolated because I live alone. GARCIA-NAVARRO: So tell us how it happened. So it's a pact, basically, that I made with a family who were friends of mine that we will essentially function as an extended family, even though we don't live together. It's basically a group of people who have decided to treat each other as safe, meaning they're agreeing to be in normal contact together, not take any precautions with each other but take precautions with the outside world. LICHFIELD: People call it pod, a bubble, a quarantine. What is a social bubble? You call it a pod.
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Gideon Lichfield wrote about how to socially isolate together for the MIT Technology Review, and he joins us now from Massachusetts. But as reopening economies and slowly easing back into society becomes a reality, some people are deciding to form, quote, "social bubbles" with friends and family as a kind of halfway measure between complete isolation and socializing normally. All of a sudden, we aren't hosting parties or dinners or play dates. All this social distancing can be isolating.
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