How Social Distancing Rules Are Created
Posted on 12/25/2021 7:29:55 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
This Christmas, did you stay 33 feet away from everyone? I didn’t think so. How about six feet, does that seem more reasonable? Guess again. Once a rule is put in place it’s difficult to eliminate it even though the original reasons for its generation are long gone, according to author Roger von Oech. His prime example:
In the 1870s the leading manufacturer of typewriters at the time received complaints that too many of the typewriter keys were sticking together if the operator went too fast. In response to this, the company produced the QWERTY type keyboard — a configuration standard on all keyboards — to slow down operators so that the keys wouldn’t jam together.
Today, technology permits us to produce typewriter keyboards that can operate much faster than any human could possibly type, such as Dvorak keyboards, but the QWERTY configuration still dominates and likely will for the foreseeable future. Concurrently, six feet of social distancing is a farce, held over from some bogus rule years ago.
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Anthony Fauci should know better, but he has been compromised and corrupted in so many ways, and has lied so often to Congress and the media about his projects and funding objectives, that his advice and proclamations are valueless; actually less than valueless. A cough or a sneeze, even through many types of masks, can travel 28 to 33 feet.
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Concurrently, six feet of social distancing is a farce, held over from some bogus rule years ago.
I always realized it was nonsensical and never really played their games.
The way people are nowadays, I would be fine with staying 33 feet away from most of them.
Per the Washington Post, the best spitting distance is 31 feet, 9.5 inches. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1979/07/30/31-feet-95-inches-to-immortality/809c7940-1d66-42ff-a526-96db62e4989b/
Hahahaha. No, but one family member was intent on giving all of us a cold
I find 264 ft [1/20 mi.] makes much more scientific sense than 6 ft.
LOL- that dde is pretty funny
“We are fidnign that the medically obese are terribly at risk for coronavirus- what do we do?”
“Hmmm, I know, let’s close all the gyms”
“I would be fine with staying 33 feet away from most of them.”
Still too close. I’d be fine with a minimum of 3 miles.
Dr. F wants me to stay 6 feet away so I can’t punch him in the face.
I gotta admit, THAT made me laugh!
Everyone should have a hundred foot string with tin cans on the ends.Anyone under 60 probably won’t get this.
That is pretty darn funny. It’s also pretty darn close to the truth.
In my family, we just hand out 6 foot long “social distancing sticks” and everybody has at it.
They don't seem to understand "upwind", "crosswind", and "downwind".
Depending on wind velocity and direction, and the location of and infected person to an uninfected one, 6 feet can be more than enough, or 31 feet not enough distance between.
He, really, is good.
I NEVER obeyed it from the getgo and will NEVER obey it
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