Again: what you said is there was no basis to believe social distancing would help. I have just linked to basis to believe exactly that. Sure, it may have tur

Again: what you said is there was no basis to believe social distancing would help. I have just linked to basis to believe exactly that. Sure, it may have turned out that COVID-19 would be totally different (though it didn't -- we now know empirically social distancing was helpful here too), but even if it had, clearly there was evidence to assume from the start that distance from infected person would be a component of infection rate.