The process of re-establishing connections after a period of social isolation caused by quarantine, 'lock-down' or other social distancing related to an epidemic or pandemic. This process is now happening around the world as many countries are currently looking at relaxing restriction experiencing during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Looking forward to social undistancing once the state relaxes the current pandemic lock-down.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)