I feel like you misunderstand the meaning of "implies", which is to suggest without explicitly saying. I think it is reasonable to assume that social distancing

I feel like you misunderstand the meaning of "implies", which is to suggest without explicitly saying. I think it is reasonable to assume that social distancing measures would have a similar effect, and in the absence of other data, the best estimate might be to assume they are proportional. Fortunately there are a couple of other answers in thread that answered this at a level of detail that I could understand.