Social Distancing

The new reality of "Social Distancing" is upon us. This new reality of keeping 6, 10, 3 (or plug in your own number) of feet between you and other people is in stark contrast with last month's belly to backside lines everywhere.

Keeping a little distance between yourself and the other guy seems foreign to all of us but actually it feels pretty good to me. I remember way back in the early 1960's when I was taking a driver education class in High School (a driver's license being an absolute necessity to a 16 year old boy in Southern California). I was talking with some fellow students about how difficult it would be to maintain the prescribed distance from the car ahead (one car length for each 10 miles per hour) and we came to the conclusion that you would have to be backing up because every time you left an inch more than a car length, someone would pull into it.  Leaving space is more comfortable now.

There are very few cars on the road in our neighborhood today so the noise level is way down - we occasionally say hello to a neighbor as we pass on opposite sides of the street and we seem to see and hear many more birds while walking.

Things go slower. There is more time to think. Covid-19 is now in our county.