That condition seems to be fairly widespread right now already. It's even encouraged under the moniker of "social distancing" (which itself is a telling misnom

That condition seems to be fairly widespread right now already. It's even encouraged under the moniker of "social distancing" (which itself is a telling misnomer; "physical distancing" would've been a much more appropriate and less jarring term but somehow that never stuck), even though there have been better alternatives (getting vaccinated, getting tested when meeting with a larger group of people, wearing high-quality masks) for quite some time now.