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Social distancing isn’t the right language for what Covid-19 asks of us

Social distancing isn’t the right language for what Covid-19 asks of us

It is a remarkable thing to consider that only a few months ago, most of humanity did not know what social distancing was. “Language matters right now,” says Cormac Russell, a faculty member of the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute at Northwestern University. It always does, but in a crisis where social isolation is a serious concern, accurately describing what we are asking of people is crucial.