I find this to be a half-truth and half-lie. In the beginning, people were scared of COVID and the pandemic that just started and most people social distanced, but as COVID continued on, people got tired of distancing, and the virus got worse and people stopped caring to a point where about only half of the people socially distance still.

Sometimes during a Zoom breakout room, something like this could be the difference in a conversation. You have different times of people in the room, those who are very open who talk and discuss, and those who stay quiet and locked inside their own bubble, even after finishing your discussing whatever work you have going on, keep the conversation going or bringing up a topic that people enjoy talking about, is a difference between those people staying locked in their own bubble or breaking it.