Social distancing was a heavily pushed measure imposed by governments. It was part of the pre-lockdown, lockdown and will still be part of the post-lockdown, so we are told. Social distancing will be part of the "new normal", according to the media. They want this to stay.
This is the world we are told we need to now live in.
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That seems like a joke, but it's not. This is what people are submitting to in order to pay for service at a German cafe. Pool noodles are attached to hats for customers to wear. Amazing. And people accept it.
The world has gone bonkers over something only as dangerous as a more severe flu. It's a joke.
Here are some more places where restaurants are making sure people adopt social distancing.
An Ocean City restaurant has introduced one creative way it plans to ensure customers maintain social distance as coronavirus restrictions are eased in the Maryland resort town.
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Not only that, in Europe you have social distancing greenhouses used to "keep people safe".
In Hagen, Germany, Novy's Brasserie has also implemented serving people inside of small glass greenhouses.
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Apaprently these "Separated Greenhouses" are so popular, they have sold out:
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Would you go to one of these businesses?
I wouldn't. I don't even like going to restaurants that much. I have no problem no giving this nonsense my business. This travesty needs to be resisted. Go anywhere else that treats people normally.
This is all from social distancing lockdown "expert" opinions. Not science. Did these "experts" come up with this on their own? Apparently not. The idea came from a 14 year old in high school, back in 2006:
Laura, with some guidance from her dad, devised a computer simulation that showed how people – family members, co-workers, students in schools, people in social situations – interact. What she discovered was that school kids come in contact with about 140 people a day, more than any other group. Based on that finding, her program showed that in a hypothetical town of 10,000 people, 5,000 would be infected during a pandemic if no measures were taken, but only 500 would be infected if the schools were closed.
After that a CDC paper titled "Targeted Social Distancing Designs for Pandemic Influenza". "They conclude with a chilling call for what amounts to a totalitarian lockdown, all stated very matter-of-factly."
Implementation of social distancing strategies is challenging. They likely must be imposed for the duration of the local epidemic and possibly until a strain-specific vaccine is developed and distributed. If compliance with the strategy is high over this period, an epidemic within a community can be averted. However, if neighboring communities do not also use these interventions, infected neighbors will continue to introduce influenza and prolong the local epidemic, albeit at a depressed level more easily accommodated by healthcare systems.
Politics decided this. Not science. "Dr. D.A. Henderson, “who had been the leader of the international effort to eradicate smallpox,” completely rejected the whole scheme."
Dr. Henderson was convinced that it made no sense to force schools to close or public gatherings to stop. Teenagers would escape their homes to hang out at the mall. School lunch programs would close, and impoverished children would not have enough to eat. Hospital staffs would have a hard time going to work if their children were at home.
The measures embraced by Drs. Mecher and Hatchett would “result in significant disruption of the social functioning of communities and result in possibly serious economic problems,” Dr. Henderson wrote in his own academic paper responding to their ideas.
The answer, he insisted, was to tough it out: Let the pandemic spread, treat people who get sick and work quickly to develop a vaccine to prevent it from coming back.
Robert Dingwall, of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG), and also one of the top scientific advisers to the British Government, said the rule was "conjured out of nowhere".
"I think it will be much harder to get compliance with some of the measures that really do not have an evidence base. I mean the two-metre rule was conjured up out of nowhere."
"There's never been a scientific basis for two metres, it's kind of a rule of thumb. But it’s not like there is a whole kind of rigorous scientific literature that it is founded upon."
The "6-feet rule" falls apart with even a slight breeze. Extensive simulations of coughing and airborne droplet transmissions have saliva travelling 18 feet in 5 seconds with a bit of wind. But hey, keep thinking this is needed even if you think COVID-19 is some devastating illness. Whatever makes you feel "safe", right?
If you are that afraid of the coronavirus, then keep your distance. But everyone else shouldn't be forced to stand in lines separated apart by 6 feet. Normally, people are keeping a decent distance from each other. I don't huddle up beside people in a store.
This social distancing has gone insane. From the stores taking 30 minutes before going inside, to restaurants like those above, to parks that have circles drawn on the grass to keep people apart. It's all absurd. The only reason people are accepting it is because of the fear-hype panic for something that has the same infection fatality rate as the flu according to new studies looking at the data. It's jut overblown in the media. This is why it's time to get off the corona-phobia bandwagon.
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"The world has gone bonkers over something only as dangerous as a more severe flu"
Are you a doctor? Fucking retard