Remember last spring when everyone, everywhere suddenly knew that you had to keep six feet of distance between you and everyone else lest you get sick and die? Yeah, one of the nation's most prominent physicians is admitting that that whole rule kinda sorta just came out of nowhere:
Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Scott Gottliebsaid on Sunday that "nobody knows" the origins of the six-foot social-distancing recommendation...
"Nobody knows where it came from. Most people assume that the six feet of distance, the recommendation for keeping six feet apart, comes out of some old studies related to flu, where droplets don't travel more than six feet," Gottlieb told [host Margaet] Brennan.
Gottlieb also said that the CDC's initial social-distancing recommendation was 10 feet.
"So the compromise was around six feet. Now imagine if that detail had leaked out. Everyone would have said, 'This is the White House politically interfering with the CDC's judgment.' The CDC said 10 feet, it should be 10 feet, but 10 feet was no more right than six feet and ultimately became three feet," Gottlieb said.
It is so good to know that the government-mandated rule that caused so many businesses to fail and caused so many people to treat each other like walking disease vectors was so rigorously studied and approved by our medical authorities!
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