They buy this crucial time through tactics that may include widespread testing to identify carriers, quarantining the infected and people they've interacted with, and physical distancing.
Exactly. So, with zoning, people are getting separated from things like work and school and movie theaters–leisure. And more and more people are taking cars to get to these places.
It means it's easy for you to get if you need it, but " at hand" can also refer not just to physical objects, but to concepts such as time and distance.
And we're very hyper-conscious of like, You know, things like status and we have a distanced relationship with things like play because they don't make sense in any kind of transactional way.
I then took a piece of fine wood, and cut it like the back of a comb, making several holes in it at equal distances with as small a needle as I could get from Glumdalclitch.
If scientists had to read or write them out in full when they were discussing things like the molecules of water in a swimming pool or the distance to the Orion nebula, it would take up pages of books.
And what we really need to ask, whether or not this hypothesis is even plausible, is really good high-resolution measurements of the distances of things in their eyes, including the retina and the lenses, from live animals.