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One of the frequent things that was expressed in those circles was that whatever was happening in Wuhan would never be as bad as the flu, so if you wanted to be worried about an infectious disease, be worried about influenza.

Consequently, people took that in the direction of discussing how to protect oneself from the flu.

And that was the first thing to come to my attention. All these people sanctimoniously repeating "six feet apart".

To which I was of course responding in my head, "Six feet? No, at least ten. Doust and Lyon, 1918."

But that just piqued my curiosity: where the hell were people getting 6 ft from?

Well, I chased it down.

It was the CDC of course.