COVID-19 Prevention & Treatment

Practice Physical Distancing

Physical Distancing (aka Social Distancing), the practice of keeping people physically far from each other, at least 6ft or 1-meter from the next person, is a COVID-19 prevention measure that the general public is constantly being asked to do.  The rationale behind this practice makes sense.  As mentioned earlier in this article, a sneeze or cough can project droplets 6ft to 9ft away.  Therefore, by staying farther than the droplets can travel, you get out of reach of these droplets and the viruses they could be carrying.  That means in case the masks fail to contain the droplets from the sneeze or cough, persons would still be well away from the person who projected the droplets, and therefore safe from possibly catching the virus from them.