According to a CNN Health report, most of us would live in small bubbles comprising 10 or people.
The fact that every person in this world has a set of close friends, family and relatives and a sea of acquaintances, one could easily argue that we already live in bubbles with a few near and ones.
However, with billions worldwide living under lockdown, it has been weeks or months since most of us have not mingled or socialized in large groups.
Most of the world has been living alone or with families and that comprised the world for them.
Now, the tiny worlds are going to get bigger when people would be allowed to hangout or play with a small group of people, as lockdowns would soon shut down.
The authorities of Belgium thought it would be a good idea for people to socialize in smaller groups of tens, according to Belgium's Le Soir citing a leaked memo.
The memo proposed that people of a group could chill out on weekends, as long as all 10 of them strictly maintained mingling with one other. So-called overlapping bubbles where two giant circles meet like Venn diagrams would not be allowed.
However, the Belgian government did not respond to CNN for a comment on this matter.
While many think that forming a bubble would be socially awkward since one has to choose between 10 people to be on the list like a dinner party or a vacation. Let’s face it, how often do people actually gather in higher numbers every weekend unless they are frat boys or so-called party freaks
Some experts think of the idea as too risky or premature, since most countries around the globe have not tested enough citizens for Covid-19 infections.
However, some sociologists see it as a more logical method as the lockdowns would break open. If one limits the number of people they hangout with, one naturally limits the chances of contracting the virus.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said last week that her government was checking out the option of social bubbles.
"Every country is going through these decisions, none of us are through this pandemic yet, but some countries are starting to look at slightly expanding what people would define as their household – encouraging people who live alone to maybe match up with somebody else who is on their own or a couple of other people to have almost kind of bubbles of people," she told BBC Radio Scotland.
Maintaining the current social distancing practices would lead to curtailing the spread of the virus, however, experts say that these lockdowns and distancing have expiry dates, especially since people get anxiety and the economy halts and the two are not mutually exclusive from one another.
