Social Distancing Reduced COVID Transmission By 84%

In recent years, people around the world have been encouraged to take social distancing measures to prevent them from contract Coronavirus from other people. When these measures were first put in place, it was said that people had to be at lease two metres away from other people to avoid contracting the disease. It was also thought better that people should remain in their homes at all times unless going out to buy oruse essential items and services. This meant that they could only leave their homes for a number of reasons including shopping for everyday essential items (this should not include anything glamorous or anything that they wouldn't buy in their everyday lives), to seek emergency medical advice, to undertake an hours exercise per week and to collect any medication that they needed in their everyday lives

People were not allowed to leave their homes for any other reasons for fear of them contracting and spreading the Covid 19 virus. As time went on and the number of people who had the virus fluctuated and went down, it was deemed safe enough to change social distancing restrictions to make it one metre plus instead of two metres. This was because it might not always be possible to remain two metres away from everyone else and the infection rate was low enough to allow this. People were requested to use their own personal judgement as to what situations they fealt would be safe for them to be in and which wouldn't put them in any increased risk from contracting the virus from other people.

It was said that people had to use their own spacial awareness and knowledge of the risk level to assess whether certain situations were safe enough for them to go to or be in. Due to this, many sporting events which might have been played in front of spectators before, either had to be cancelled completely or played behind closed doors with no fans or spectators at all.

During this time, if sporting events were televised, some crowd noise could be added to give it that sense of normality for people who may be watching at home.

Keeping space between yourself and others helps to lower your risk of getting droplets with coronavirus on your face or hands.

Someone can spread the coronavirus even without any symptoms. That’s why it’s important to practice social distancing even if people around you don’t seem sick.

It was judged by scientists that if someone coughed or sneezed which caused them to discharge droplets which would have the Covid 19 virus in them, these droplets could travel a distance of two metres or so which would mean that they would come in to contact with and infect anyone who was with in the given distance which was the social distancing limit. Due to this, the strict regulations were put in place to avoid people from passing on the virus any further and unintentionally overwhelming the National Health Service.

It has now been revealed, that the policies which were put in place avoided approximately 84% of the potential COVID-19 cases and 66% of fatalities in Germany, in comparison to if there was no social distancing.

That's according to a study that was published in the interdisciplinary Open-Access Journal PLoS ONE under the title "How effective are social distancing policies? Evidence on the fight against COVID-19".

"Our study shows that the early measures to contain COVID-19 were successful in avoiding an overload of the German healthcare system", Professor Hansen says. "Back then, without tools such as vaccination or rapid testing, there was no viable alternative to social distancing – despite the economic and social costs of closing schools and businesses," says Professor Hansen.