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The Origin of 6 Feet of Distance

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The Origin of 6 Feet of Distance
A sign asks people to keep six feet of distance in downtown Newark, N.J., on on Nov. 25, 2020. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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You still bump into the stickers from time to time: “Six Feet of Distance.” It’s weird and anachronistic at this point. No one pays any attention anymore. Still, it would be nice to know where this came from. Oddly, we don’t really know.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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