Rep. Ruiz: Six Feet Was Picked as an Arbitrary Number to Make it Easy for People to Understand Concept of Social Distancing

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RUIZ: “Now, let me back up for a second because the Republicans tried to put the attack on the no data for the six feet of social distancing as an attack on the basic public health principle of social distancing, when you have an aerosolized or droplet transmittable virus from somebody’s mouth. Now, it doesn’t take data to show you that if you jump off an airplane without a parachute, you’re going to die. So we know that if you are far away from a person’s ability to extract or cough up or sneeze aerosolized droplets that you’re going to be safer from receiving that droplet or aerosolized virus into your eyes, your nose, your mouth. Now the question that was asked is, was — was there any evidence to show whether it should have been six feet or 10 feet, or 50 yards, or three feet? And that is no. So they had to pick an arbitrary number to make it easy for people to understand the concept of social distancing.”