A short video posted on Twitter shows a grandfather hugging children through a plastic barricade with cuts and gloves for the arms. A world where hugs, pats on the back, pecks on the cheeks and holding hands were common, will now start looking at these simple gestures of love and support with caution, if not downright suspicion. And, perhaps rightly so. The novel Coronavirus has not just stolen time from us, but also our sense of security with fellow humans.

And it's the huggers who will suffer.