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Use physical distancing instead of social distancing

Achilleas Pipinellis - OOO until November 25th (parental leave) requested to merge social-to-physical-distancing into master

Why is this change being made?

The term social distancing is not accurate to describe what we're asked to do due to covid-19. We should call it physical distancing.

On March 23, many news outlets reported that WHO changed the term from social distancing to physical distancing one example

The transcript for the 2020-03-20 press conference uses the term "physical distancing" to start with.

Edited by Achilleas Pipinellis - OOO until November 25th (parental leave)

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