Group activities transform themselves for the pandemic age

Remember group activities? It was a Thursday night in mid-January. Wuhan was an unfamiliar city of 11 million, in a distant province, on the other side of the world, in China. The windchill was -38. I was walking down Stephen Avenue at 10:30 p.m. past the Palace Theatre, when all these people started pouring out into the bitterly-cold streets. They looked like a post-concert crowd with a twist: a lot of them appeared to be older people, chatting away in the windchill, as if they always spent Thu