Touch: Life--and Covid 19

Touch is one of the senses we often discount. Sight and sound usually get top billing. But Covid 19 made human touch sometimes risky and even wrong, pushing its lack to the forefront of our minds and hearts. Many of us were home alone, sometimes hungry, sometimes afraid. And then, after a semblance of “normal” life returned, humanity began experiencing the wonders of touch once more.

When the next pandemic arrives, we would do well to remember the essential sense of touch, if only to reassure ourselves that any type of touch contains antibodies that make it invincible in the face of any virus. The natural world and our public memorials were proof of that.

This series begins with photos honoring the touch we lost during 15 months of pandemic and ends with the return of touch.