I drove home reflecting how nice it felt to have human contact with other small business people.
"It's even worse than being in a detention centre where you can at least have human contact with other inmates," said Yu, who is 48.
Some people like to go out where they came in; they like having human contact at both ends of the trip, to say goodbye or offer thanks.
"Maybe it's because all these kids do is text and go on Facebook so they don't even have human contact anymore," said Dona Eichner, the mother of freshman and junior girls at the high school in Montvale.
[You're] telling families to say goodbye to relatives they are never going to have human contact with again," said Raphael Frankfurter, director of the Wellbody Alliance, a medical charity based in Kono, where Sierra Leone's first case was recorded.
"But visiting a bookshop offers the chance to browse, to discover books... to have human contact.
Cheok said one man heard of his research and asked for a way he could hug his daughter who had such a severe auto-immune disease she couldn't have human contact.
One of the puppies, who Hagar speculates had never had human contact before, panicked as volunteer Lisa Arturo captured the animal.
Engaging in small talk might be awkward at times, but it lets others know that you are attentive and want to have human contact in the workplace.
A feeling of community/social support was also reported; "Nice to have human contact, we achieved something together in the group", "I enjoyed the social contact it was great fun", "In six weeks we gelled as a group", "It felt good to be part of a team".
