Be a good citizen, and keep your distance GlobeDebate
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Those of us lucky enough to have a white-collar job that can be done from the kitchen table are not being asked for much. Stay home.
It is not often that our country asks anything of us. The privilege of Canadian citizenship tends to have many benefits, but few responsibilities.We live in fractured times, where the left and right enjoy treating each other as aliens, and where trust in politicians has dangerously eroded, particularly if they come from the “other” side. But a threat to all we share tends to get people remembering all that we hold in common.
Social distancing is an act of social solidarity. The healthy person who doesn’t get infected, and doesn’t pass it on, is helping their neighbours.that, if no measures are taken, one infected person will pass it on to an average of 2.5 others over five days, and a month later more than 400 will be infected. Merely halving our exposure to others is likely to radically reduce the infection rate. Instead of 400 people infected in a month, it would be 15.
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