To me dissonance is noise, just not the right kind of noise. It's loud and unsettling. It's odd in a way that I suspect most people find it almost deafening. What's laughable to me is wishing we were allowed to be in somebody's presence only because it's not allowed, right now. Once this bleep in time is all over, I'll be interested in knowing whether social interaction increases, resumes as it was (sort of), or it just gets kicked to the curb, this time, by choice.