Social distancing is a broad term for a model of keeping individuals as isolated from one another as possible. Some common practices of social distancing include:
–Personal Isolation or Quarantine
–Cancellation of Mass Gatherings (sporting events, concerts, etc.)
–Self-shielding (using face masks)
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While most of us are very new to this term, it has a great deal of historic precedent for its implementation.
Click through the gallery below and see through the experience of the 1918 Influenza why the practice became necessary.
Nurse with Mask, National Library of Medicine 
Order and Regulation in Auburn Citizen 
Willard Case, Cayuga Museum Collection 
Makeshift Hospital, Arkansas, November 7, 1918. National Archives and Records Administration
