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Social distancing is a modern mantra/meme meaning "stay 6 feet apart from others". I wouldn't call it an ancient practice.

• phs318u 6y ago
  "Next up was the six-foot-rule, in which Angelerio instructed that – as translated by Benedictow's team – "People allowed to go out must bear with them a cane measuring six feet long. It is mandatory that people keep this distance from one another." "And Angelerio went further. He also specified that a large rail, or parabonda, should be added to the counters at shops in which foods are sold, to encourage people to keep their distance – and recommended that, during mass, people should be careful when shaking hands." Sounds like social distancing to me.
  • SilasX 6y ago
    True, but the original comment was quoting something that referred to quarantining and equating it with social distancing. Even if the original medieval author did explicitly endorse a six-foot rule, that original comment was wrong to blur the difference, and the parent was correct to call it out.