Social Distancing

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
We just heard an excellent way of thinking about how far we need to keep away from others for effective social distancing.

Picture a Chicago Bears receiver. Now picture where Mitch Trabiski throws the ball. The distance between those points is roughly 10 feet, a good example of how much separation you need for effective social distancing.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
who is mitch trabiski ?
and why is he throwin a ball?
is the Chicago guy supposed to go get it?
why doesn't Mitch get a dog?
or just stop throwing his ball away?
seriously anyone that throws a ball 10' away from someone they are playing catch with sucks.
is that why he hired the Chicago guy?
would no one else would play with him anymore because he kept throwing the ball so far away from them?
I would if I had to keep going and getting the ball because some guy named Mitch couldn't just throw the ball to me.
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
Every flu season , and all of the time for me , I'm telling the kids if you or they can touch you're too close and in each other's personal space I only have about a 35" reach , but so does the almost 13 yo girl so it's not quite 6' but it's pretty close . It's also about the same as the spacing between impulse racks in the Walmart check out , the width of your truck hood or the stove and kitchen sink butted up , or the length of the typical oval dining table . Average couch , coffee table length , or the width of a Queen bed . 3 rifle barrel lengths , 2 of Daddy's goose gun barrels , the width of a set of French/garden doors , a little less than regulation distance from the line to the dart board . If you would bust their head or your stock swinging your favorite gun like a club or spray em' with a shaken up bottle of cola hose thumbed you or they are too close .

Mental imagery I could come up with some more like if you can pee on more than their shoe ...... But based on public restrooms a lot of folks would be in a position closer to tongue wrestling so I guess that's out ......
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
sometimes I envy you for that Mike.
I know you have some cool stuff here at home, and you still stay down there doing your thing most of the time.
 

popper

Well-Known Member
Put social distancing in perspective. If you don't have Kung flu - you can only get it from external source. It isn't in the air like pollen. Coughs from an infected person, Communal contact of objects handled by infected person.
So like the Doc says, keep away (cough distance), disinfect incoming 'stuff' especially as the Kung flu is spreading to more people. Disinfect your credit cards. Handle $ carefully. Get 'hot' food from the drive thru. Just like 'normal' flu - you don't know who has it.
 

Ian

Notorious member
SO TRUE, Hawk!

Yesterday I passed a roadside tamale vendor and didn't stop only because I wasn't hungry and where I was going I couldn't keep them hot/cold.
 

Missionary

Well-Known Member
Down here it is the street vendors who sell everything from pastry snacks and juices to full blown meals that are eaten right along busy streets with all the dirt and dust and badly tuned diesel bus motors thrown in for no extra charge.
About every 5 years cholera breaks out and the guberment panics. But two weeks later everything is back to normal.
 

JWFilips

Well-Known Member
I Have got to get Ian to teach me how to make Tamales! One Mex food I do not think I understand but I love them