The even more interesting question here is, if these guidelines do get issued, how do people react more broadly? Do they think ‘oh the six foot thing was all a lie?’ Do all elites memory hole that we ever said six feet and start saying three feet, and how much whiplash does that cause? If the one central rule goes out the window does everyone start treating all of it as one big joke?
―Covid 3/18: An Expected Quantity of Blood Clots by Zvi
This is neither a new nor a novel phenomenon. The safe distance is three feet. The safe distance has always been three feet.
[T]he speaker had switched from one line to the other actually in midsentence, not only without a pause, but without even breaking the syntax….
Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete…. Although no directive was ever issued, it was known that the chiefs of the Department intended that within one week no reference to the war with Eurasia, or the alliance with Eastasia, should remain in existence anywhere.
This is neither a new nor a novel phenomenon. The safe distance is three feet. The safe distance has always been three feet.