How Should You Social Distance? l FiveThirtyEight

Everyone has a lot of questions about what "social distancing" means. Can I go to work? The gym? A coffee shop? Here's what our Senior Science Writer, Maggie Koerth, is doing after speaking with a number of experts in public health.


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[dannypockets]

Her social distancing strategy didn't have enough tiers, no discussion of baysian regression. Is this even Five Thirty Eight?

[stevekrause]

What about getting haircuts? Is it safe?

[andyh]

Well, the decision about going to a gym or restaurant is out of most people's hands at this point unless you want to just stand outside.

[alre]

This is a failure. We need personal protective equipment. Idiots ignore social distancing. No one is arresting idiots inside a store. Businessmen should sell protective personal equipment.

[dinkinflicka]

Should be called PHYSICAL DISTANCING. Some people have used social DISTANCING as a way to be anti social ffs

[alquinn]

come on guys, this is easy to acheive if you have a terrible personality

[Bill-pyfn]

When one coughs, 3' is well within the contagion zone. We depend upon public health and the government, unfortunately to a lesser extent, to give us pertinent info. THEY are trying to quell a panic foremost and scrambling to get up to speed. The public should be doing their own research pooling from a vast reference point. Those individuals that are content to being spoon fed by "whomever" do so at their own peril.

[lonestar]

These people need to practice social distancing as far as the East is from the West, from now until the end of time. This is the new normal, I tell you!!