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The recent pandemic of COVID-19 will forever change our world and how we interact with one another. Humans and how we communicate have been deeply impacted by rules and regulations which address space and occupants therein. Our personal bubble, or sometimes referred to as a proxemic zone, guides our interpersonal preferences during interaction and spatial expectations for various encounters (Eaves & Leathers, 2018). Indeed, this personal bubble is common and often used. Recent research reveals that proxemics serves to improve the quality of communication (Drag, 2020). Interactants maintain ideal spatial preferences, which helps them feel more comfortable in the interaction and the nonverbal messages become more accurate. Due to the ongoing pandemic, our proxemic preferences have been severely affected by governments, who have sought to control and mitigate the spread of the virus. As a result, our proxemics within the nonverbal arena have been discounted and devalued at the interactants’ expense.