Your Politeness Is a Public Health Hazard

Social distancing is challenging everything we know about what it means to be nice

Kate Morgan
Forge
Published in
6 min readApr 4, 2020

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HeHe had to have heard me the first time. My voice is naturally loud, and I know it carries. Plus, I’d made it a point to enunciate so he would understand me from halfway down the aisle.

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Kate Morgan
Forge
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Kate is a freelance journalist who’s been published by Popular Science, The New York Times, USA Today, and many more. Read more at bykatemorgan.com.