Dispatch 4: Six Feet

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Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Since the onset of the pandemic, we exist in a constant state of calculation, trying to define our own personal bubble. We’ve all been given a simple rule: maintain six feet of distance between yourself and others. But why six? Producer Sarah Qari uncovers the answer, and talks to some scientists who now say six might not be the right number after all.

This episode was reported and produced by Sarah Qari and Pat Walters.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening to radio lab from WNYC
0:13.6	Sorry, sorry, hello, whoa
0:22.4	You're coming through so clear, this is crazy, it's pretty cool, isn't it?
0:30.7	Hey, I'm Chad Ibu Mra, this is Radio Lab Corona Dispatch number four.
0:36.1	This one is sort of a follow up to our first dispatch and it comes from producers are
0:40.4	a car.
0:41.4	In the last, I want to say like 48 hours, I feel like I've become an armchair expert on how
0:49.7	pathogens travel out of your mouth.
0:54.1	Just to set it up, so like a couple days ago, I mean, feels like 50 years ago, the whole
0:58.8	group got together on Zoom and we started talking about numbers.
1:01.7	It's some level like I'm sort of obsessed with all the numbers that are like coming out
1:05.2	every day.
1:06.2	Twenty-two people here and 500 people there and I believe you had a question about numbers,
1:11.3	specific number.
1:12.3	Sure, okay.
1:13.3	A number that I've been thinking a lot about is six.
1:17.2	The recommended distance is six feet apart.
1:19.7	You could be infected and spreading it to anyone in your six foot bubble.
1:24.0	Do you mean like the distance we're supposed to stand apart from one another?
1:27.2	Exactly.
1:28.2	Six feet between all people is not a suggestion.
1:30.4	Yeah, it's funny now that you mentioned it.
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