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21 Scenes of Social Distancing — Hilarious, Touching and Striking Shots of Texans Helping to Flatten the Coronavirus Curve

A New Normal Means New Rules, New Outfits — and a Little Looniness

BY // 04.22.20

Anyone who hasn’t been in pajamas past noon, please raise your hand. Anyone who has now delineated between daytime pajamas and nighttime pajamas, raise your hand. Anyone who has forgotten to brush their teeth on a daily basis … just keep your mouth closed, please.

Everyone whose cocktail hour creeps earlier and earlier each day, raise your hand. The lady who poured a glass of wine into a sippy cup at 2:30 pm so as not to be discovered by her family will remain anonymous, but you get my drift.

In the times of social distancing — closed restaurants, bars, and everything fun — we are all going a bit loony. Yes, I am wearing pajamas 24 hours a day on occasion. Sometimes I forget to brush my teeth until 3 pm. My hair is always in a ponytail. Most of my clothes no longer fit. I’m thinking about taking up smoking (something I’ve never been successful at), but I hear it’s a further problem when contracting that nasty COVID-19. I have no lush eyelashes. My nails, naturally as thin as onion skins, are now an embarrassment.

I’m thinking of taking up baking professionally after whipping up amazing oatmeal raisin cookies, chocolate chip cookies, blueberry pound cake, blueberry lemon cake, and blueberry kuchen during these weeks of isolation. Alas, there is no way to compete with Common Bond.

Of course, I have nothing at all to complain about. So, I’m not complaining, I’m just saying that we’re all growing weary of  “no place to go.” And, many of us are truly suffering from shrinking, if not totally disappearing, income.

Blah!

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So, after stomaching all the coronavirus 24/7 “breaking news” a person can handle without ending up in a psyche ward (or, in my case, Betty Ford), I turn to Instagram and Facebook for a few visual moments of levity. One of my favorites is Billy Fong, PaperCity Dallas culture and style editor, who runs a daily fashion photo on Instagram of his quarantine ensembles and challenges fashionable Dallasites to submit photos on Instagram of their own social-isolation outfits.

With that in mind, we’ve compiled photos of prominent Texans handling the pandemic’s new normal:

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